House of Sand and Fog PB
House of Sand and Fog PB
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House of Sand and Fog PB by Andre Dubus Iii
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 Fog is 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.
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 Fog is 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.
Andre Dubus III is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller House of Sand and Fog, as well as the critically acclaimed and award-winning memoir Townie. Townie was named to Esquire, Salon, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Washington Examiner, and AudioFile's lists of the finest novels of 2011. House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as a Book Sense Book of the Year and an Oprah Book Club selection. It was also the foundation for an Academy Award-nominated movie feature. His other works include The Cage Keeper and Other Tales, a collection of short stories, and the novels Bluesman and The Garden of Last Days. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays of 1994 and The Best Spiritual Writing of 1999, among other publications.
He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and was a nominee for the Academy of Arts and Letters' Rome Prize Fellowship. Dubus is a full-time faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and has served on panels for the National Book Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught writing at Harvard, Tufts, and Emerson College, and is currently a member of PEN American Center. Fontaine Dollas Dubus, a performer, is his wife. They have three children and live in Massachusetts.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780786232369 |
| ISBN 10 | 0786232366 |
| Title | House of Sand and Fog PB |
| Author | Andre Dubus Iii |
| Series | Thorndike Paperback |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thorndike Press |
| Year published | 2002-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 613 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |