The Garden of Last Days: A Novel | Andre Dubus III | A gripping, tense story evolves with many...

The Garden of Last Days: A Novel | Andre Dubus III | Took too long to develop

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	The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Andre Dubus III W. W. Norton, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog?a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel.

One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works.

Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely.

From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's #1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog?and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.

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A gripping, tense story evolves with many unexpected twists and turns

Andre Dubus III's THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS receives Dan John Miller's fine acting voice as it tells of a stripper who brings her daughter to work, only to find an unusual client with lots of money will change her life. A gripping, tense story evolves with many unexpected twists and turns.

Took too long to develop

I may be generous in the three stars I gave this book. Like many of the other readers, I felt that the story needed to be edited and there was too much detail into some of the charecters involved. I have to say that I did enjoy the last 150 pages or so of the book but all in all, this novel was a disappointment.

The story line was appealing but it just moved too slow for my liking. I was about ready to give up on the novel but I am glad I finished because it did have some redeeming qualities.

I dont think I would reccomend this book to a friend.

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Pitching for a movie if you ask me

I thought the book was well-written and the story flowed along well for the most part. However, I thought that the author was trying to pitch a movie rather than write a story. The characters are a little flat and I really thought that it would be wrapped up better, but it kind of just left you hanging like there was one last bite and you discover you finished your sandwich.

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