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The memoir was referenced as the 2011 work where Dubus recounts his transformation from a bullied kid to a strong adult and as a source of personal anecdotes. Several passages highlighted its role in his life.
I write about all that in my memoir, Townie, about how I transformed myself from a small, sedentary, scared, bullied kid into somebody with some muscles and some fighting skills.
— Episode: Carrying On After A Life-Changing Accide...
Episode: Carrying On After A Life-Changing Accident
The memoir was referenced as the 2011 work where Dubus recounts his transformation from a bullied kid to a strong adult and as a source of personal anecdotes. Several passages highlighted its role in his life.
I write about all that in my memoir, Townie, about how I transformed myself from a small, sedentary, scared, bullied kid into somebody with some muscles and some fighting skills.
We're also talking about his 2011 memoir, which is called Townie.
I put it in Townie.
Episode: Best Of: Pianist Jason Moran / Author Andre Dubus...
The memoir was referenced several times as the author's earlier work that began with a childhood jogging scene and explored themes of pain and identity.
His earlier books include the best-selling novel House of Sound and Fog and the best-selling memoir Townie.
I love this line by the writer Paul Engle. He said that writing is frigging endless. I began with a horrible metaphor of rats gnashing at his pelvis and his hip bones. ... I wrote a memoir Townie about how I transformed myself from a small, sedentary, somebody with some muscles and some fighting skills.
Episode: Novelist Andre Dubus III
Andre described his memoir Townie as recounting his transformation from a bullied, sedentary kid into a physically strong adult.
I write about all that in my memoir, Townie, about how I transformed myself from a small, sedentary, scared, bullied kid into somebody with some muscles and some fighting skills.
Townie came out in 2011, but especially the first five or six years, I would get all these letters and, you know, from all sorts of people, a lot of whom grew up poor and were single moms ...