Such Kindness

A Novel

Andre Dubus author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:16th Jun '23

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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.

"Dubus is at the top of his game here, masterfully carrying the reader from the present action to Tom's memories and dreams without confusion. The writing and the structure are clean and seamless. " -- Issac Fitzgerald - The New York Times Book Review
"A powerful portrait of recovered dignity. " -- People
"Dubus excels at showing how mistakes can compound into tragedy... [and] brilliantly captures the ways chronic pain erodes the self... 'Such Kindness' is an astonishing novel about all these feelings, and the actions they call forth when we pay attention. " -- Lorraine Berry - The Los Angeles Times
"Dubus is, undoubtedly, a skilled writer, and 'Such Kindness' is an admirable project for challenging us to show compassion for those on the economic fringes of society. " -- Zahir Janmohamed - Boston Globe
"Such Kindness charts a remarkable rebirth, not from poverty to wealth but from bitter helplessness to the knowledge of self-worth. The result is a gripping and transformational journey towards kindness, in a tremendously moving novel. " -- Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
"Such Kindness is magnificent. A profound and compassionate study of how to be human wrapped in a taut survival story. I loved it so much. This is Dubus at his absolute finest." -- Lily King, author of Five Tuesdays in Winter

ISBN: 9781324000464

Dimensions: 246mm x 165mm x 28mm

Weight: 516g

336 pages