townie

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He is also the son of writer Andre Dubus II, whose troubled family life was a major element of "Townie."

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2014

Unfortunately, like Townie, With or Without You loses steam at the end, lapsing into sentimentalism otherwise absent from its pages.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

In this, With or Without You makes a worthy companion to another excellent recent memoir set in Essex County, Andre Dubus III’s Townie.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

Townie is by no means perfect: parts are overwritten, others go on too long and there's a larger problem to do with how Dubus presents himself.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

These are the sorts of questions that Dubus increasingly grapples with in the second half of Townie: who is he really and what kind of man will he become?

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011