Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin -- Andre Dubus, Hardcover

During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being.

In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, "If I Owned a Gun," Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O'Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness and testimony to the art of the essay.

Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.30w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781324000440

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2023 pg. 23
Booklist 02/01/2024 pg. 11
BookPage 03/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 03/04/2024