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Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of territory in the world.
On a road crew in California, a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force under the Shah yearns to restore his family's dignity. When an attractive bungalow comes available on county auction for a fraction of its value, he sees a great opportunity for himself, his wife, and his children. But the house's former owner, a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck, doesn't see it that way, nor does her lover, a married cop driven to extremes to win her love and get her house back.
House of Sand and Fogis a narrative triumph in which a traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story are turned upside down with brutal, heartrending consequences. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
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A page-turner with a beating heart. --Joanne Wilkinson
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"A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir. . . . [T]he work of a writer who is the real thing." Baltimore Sun
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[A] fine and prophetic novel.
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"Elegant and powerful. . . . An unusual and volatile literary thriller." Washington Post Book World
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"A page-turner with a beating heart." Boston Globe
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"[A] fine and prophetic novel." Los Angeles Times
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The National Book Award finalist, Oprah Book Club pick, #1 bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture.
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The Oprah Book Club selection for November 2000.
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A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters--people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on--careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
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A page-turner with a beating heart.A mixture of classical tragedy perfectly imbued with film noir. . . . [T]he work of a writer who is the real thing.[A] fine and prophetic novel.Elegant and powerful. . . . An unusual and volatile literary thriller.
About the Author
Andre Dubus III is the author of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman, House of Sand and Fog, and The Garden of Last Days, and the memoir Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays of 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize, and he was a finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. An Academy Award-nominated motion picture and published in seventeen languages, House of Sand and Fogwas a fiction finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize and was a Booksense Book of the Year, an Oprah Book Club selection, and #1 New York Timesbestseller. A member of PEN American Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, and Emerson College. He is currently a full-time faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is married to the performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.