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Title	:	The Garden of Last Days
Author	:	Andre Dubus III
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 535 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2008 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

The Garden of Last Days

Andre Dubus III

Hardcover | Pages: 535 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 4659 Users | 827 Reviews

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Andre Dubus III draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal and free with his money. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he’s drunk, angry, and lonely.

From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader by the throat with psychological tension, depth, and realism.

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Original Title:	The Garden of Last Days
ISBN:	0393041654 (ISBN13: 9780393041651)
Edition Language:	English URL http://andredubus.com/gardenoflastdays.html
Literary Awards:	LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)

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Ratings: 3.47 From 4659 Users | 827 Reviews

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If I had just one wish for this novel, it would be that Dubus had decided to remove the actual September 11 connection from this book. The story is very strong and so are the characters. It is extremely moving, but the September 11 connection gets in the way. It's like trying to have angry gorillas do ballet. It isn't that Dubus can't handle it, but it is just too charged. It distracts from the beauty of the novel. I know that this is where the germ of inspiration sprouted, but I wish he had

So this actually took me forever to read... like months. BUT I always came back to it and found myself being drawn to the story. I think it comes down to just my own life experiences and my moods that affected me not reading it faster. The overall theme, though, was about people trying their best in life, as challenging as it can be, to do what they think is right. It starts with a girl who works as a stripper taking her child to work with her because she has no one to watch her. It leads up to

the awareness of his fate approaching has lifted him away from noise and loud movement and trouble and worry. It is not unlike gazing into a fire, how everything falls away, how you stop thinking of all that has been done and must be done and should have been done differently by everyone, especially himself. p448 The individuals in this edgy, multi-layered rather documentary-style fiction have a definite tendency to ruminate; the above quote could actually have been uttered by any of the main

I don't know if I can finish this unrelentingly depressing book. Is it just me?UPDATE: I have concluded that I will never finish this book and am removing it from my "currently reading list." Having read about 2/3s of it, I cannot stomach another page. I don't need this kind of stress in my reading life.

Well, I read all the other GoodReads reviews and don't have much to add. There are lots of sharp insights below. In short, yes this was a book told from probably too many perspectives (I counted at least 9 distinct points of view), there was a bit of over-writing, and there is powerlessness/over-sexualization attached to some of the female characters. And the September 11th terrorist sub-plot borders on the ridiculous...but...I liked it.I like a chunky book. I like a book with a strong sense of

I read this for my book club, and it was about as banal as it gets. It really could have been a short story; the major action takes place in the span of a single night, yet the author managed to drag it out into 400 pages. The characters were really bland and one-dimensional, undeserving of so much attention. And when the plot finally reached its climax, the story fell apart altogether. It wasn't unreadable, but I'm not sure I'd recommend this to anybody.

I bought this book in 2009. I know this because I found the receipt in the book. A receipt from Borders (how I miss you Borders.) I don't remember buying it so I don't know what drew me to it. All these years I thought it was about a Jewish family pre-Holocaust when things were getting dicey for Jews in Europe. It's about some very sleazy subjects. A girl with a daughter who works in a strip club, an extreme Muslim who has crazy ideas of what Allah expects from him and a man who has been thrown