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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

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Andre Dubus III・・Ended

Updated: May 17, 2008

Content length: 544 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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Synopsis

"So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus 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 and 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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🌟 Editor’s Pick — Why It Belongs on Your Shelf

Set on the weekend before 9/11 in Florida’s underbelly, The Garden of Last Days is a high-wire, character-driven collision of three lives—April (a dancer and young mother), AJ (a volatile working-class man), and Bassam (an enigmatic newcomer). Dubus propels the story with quick-cut chapters and deep empathy, balancing momentum with moral complexity. As Stephen King put it, it’s “so good, so damn compulsively readable.” Ideal if you want a novel that grips like a thriller but resonates like literary fiction.