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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780393041651 ISBN: 0393041654 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: June 02, 2008 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog—a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog—and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A gripping, tense story evolves with many unexpected twists and turnsAndre Dubus III's THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS receives Dan John Miller's fine acting voice as it tells of a stripper who brings her daughter to work, only to find an unusual client with lots of money will change her life. A gripping, tense story evolves with many unexpected twists and turns. Rating: - Took too long to developI may be generous in the three stars I gave this book. Like many of the other readers, I felt that the story needed to be edited and there was too much detail into some of the charecters involved. I have to say that I did enjoy the last 150 pages or so of the book but all in all, this novel was a disappointment. The story line was appealing but it just moved too slow for my liking. I was about ready to give up on the novel but I am glad I finished because it did have some redeeming ... Read More Rating: - A page turnerGreat book. Not for the faint of heart. Rich, descriptive writing. Carefully paces itself so you get to know and understand the characters and the settings, then - bam! - the book takes off like a shot. I read it in three days. Even skipped watching a Red Sox playoff game and the Biden-Palin debate so I could finish it (yes, it's that good). Rating:  - For a much better read, try the original, non-fiction "Welcome to Terrorland"You can blame but reasonably excuse an author who simply lacks talent, style, etc. But it is inexcusable that Dubus III's last effort fails to cite his obvious primary source, a rather astounding non-fiction account of Atta's pre-9/11 Florida days in the sun, Daniel Hopsicker's Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida. Rating:  - After House of Sand and Fog, a real disappointmentWhat a let down. I think House of Sand and Fog was was on the best books I've read in a long time. It is almost perfect in setting, characterization and plot. It is well written and very literary in style. However, awaiting his next book I anxiously gobbled it up to see what one of my favorite authors had as an encore. What a disappointment. The characters were described in broad terms and over and over and over again, ad nauseum. The foreshadowing was quite obvious as well. It left nothing to ... Read More |
