The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
by Andre Dubus III
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Author: Andre Dubus IIIEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-17
ISBN: 0393041654
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, Andre Dubus III does it again! I loved "House of Sand and Fog" and I love "The Garden of Last Days" equally as much. Absolutely unputdownable, the book was welded to my hands for hours on end. What a great plot and what excellent characterisation. I won't elaborate on plotline, as many other reviewers have written excellent summaries of it, but I will comment on how well paced the novel is, how wonderfully the characters are developed and how quickly you are sucked into the vortex of these characters' lives on the eve of the catastrophic events of 9/11. I found the character of Bassam particularly intriguing and I have to disagree with the 1 and 2 star reviewers; I thought Bassam was a very well realised character. The clash between his seduction by the haram (forbidden) ways of the US and his chosen path as a jidhadist was never short of fascinating. I thought Dubus bought this character to life, with all his doubts, fears and implacable hatred of the Western way of life, that he gets seduced by, in spite of himself. I rate this novel a 5-star effort and I highly recommend "The Garden of Last Days" to one and all.
Summary of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
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.
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