Author of House of Sand and Fog to Read from His Latest Novel

Film screening follows reading

By Vicky Waltz

Andre Dubus III, author of the 1999 National Book Award finalist and best-selling novel House of Sand and Fog, will read from his newest novel, The Garden of Last Days, tonight at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. The reading and book-signing will be followed by a screening of House of Sand and Fog.

The Garden of Last Days is about sex, parenthood, honor, and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life just before the September 11 terrorist attacks, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection and sexual violence with family love.

Dubus is the author also of a collection of short fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novel Bluesman. He is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and he has won the National Magazine Award for fiction and the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Prix de Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their three children.

The reading begins at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 9, at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. The movie starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at Harvard Book Store or by phone, 617-661-1515, with a credit card. For more information, click here.

Vicky Waltz can be reached at vwaltz@bu.edu. 

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