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Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III

Gone So Long

by Andre Dubus III

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  • Oct 2018, 480 pages
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  • Joyce J. (Prairieville, LA)
    Disappointing
    Dubus does not paint a very attractive picture of the relations between men and woman. Men are seen as predators only wanting one thing and the women, all beautiful (he uses the adjective "beautiful" to the point of tedium) endure the consequences of the men's actions. Sex is a bartering tool, an account to be drawn from and used. The daughter and her father each travel their own memory train to the point of collision. I found the ending flat. None of the main characters are likeable. They work in a carnival, a place of false hope. Dubus uses a mundane trick of references to books to connote intelligence in the daughter Susan and her mother Linda, like a white hat on a cowboy to tell you he was the hero. It was weak. They were weak. I was intrigued that the father's post prison professions were chair caning and hair cutting. Caning is also a type of punishment and the father certainly did plenty of that. Like Sampson, Daniel's anger lost its power. I would not recommend this book.
  • Bobbie D. (Boca Raton, FL)
    Daniel
    Gone So Long begins slowly introducing the reader to the cast of characters, even some with more than one name! Most are dysfunctional! The novel drags on for over 450 pages.
    The book revolves around an unattractive, uneducated, violent young man that works in an arcade where he meets a beautiful, sexy young woman who becomes pregnant.
    The author then tells two stories, one in a letter and one in a memoir. Eventually, the two come together as you know it will.
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