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Such kindness : a novel / Andre Dubus III.

Summary:
After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.
Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? He is not, he believes, the kind of person who lives in subsidized housing, though that is where he has ended up. He is not the kind of person who hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud, together with neighbors he considers lowlifes, until he finds himself stealing his banker’s trash. Who is Tom Lowe, and who will he become? Can he find a way to reunite hands and heart, mind and spirit, to be once again a giver and not just a taker, to forge a self-acceptance deeper than pride?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324000464
  • ISBN: 1324000465
  • Physical Description: 311 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Subject: Unemployed > Fiction.
Opioid abuse > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Fraud > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Literary fiction
Genre: Novels.

Available copies

  • 30 of 35 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 35 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library FICTION DUBUS (Text) 50686016304813 Adult Fiction Available -
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Altoona Area Public Library F DUB (Text) 33240004695550 Adult Fiction Available -
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Carbondale Public Library FICTION DUBUS (Text) 50688010865575 Adult Fiction Checked Out 04/29/2024
Dalton Community Library FICTION DUBUS (Text) 50689010461035 Adult Fiction Available -
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Gettysburg Library FIC DUBUS ANDRE (Text)
Endowment: Althea Schildknecht Named Endowment, 2023
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