Such Kindness - A Novel

Tom Lowe's fall was catastrophic-a moment of fatigued inattention while shingling a roof leading to excruciating pain, opioid addiction, divorce and estrangement from his son. Yet Tom still considers himself a worker, unlike his shiftless neighbours in subsidised housing. And he resents the hell out of the banker and adjustable-rate mortgage responsible for foreclosure on the home he built himself.After his car is impounded, Tom stoops lower than he ever thought possible, with a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud. But in digging through literal trash, Tom finds that something new begins to grow: a recognition of common humanity, a self-acceptance deeper than pride, a determination to give what he can. Still, he'll need to fall even farther before he finds a new place to rest. To one man's painful moral journey, Andre Dubus III brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity, forging a novel as absorbing as it is profound.

About the author

Andre Dubus III is the author of Such Kindness and eight other books, including the bestsellers Townie and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award Finalist in Fiction and an Oprah's Book Club selection. He lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Summary

A full-hearted parable of aspiration, loss and redemption from a literary master of working-class New England.

Product details

• Authors: Andre Dubus, Dubus Andre
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9781324000464
• ISBN: 978-1-324-00046-4
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary