Bluesman, Andre Dubus III
Bluesman, Andre Dubus III
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Bluesman
A Novel

Author: Andre Dubus III

Narrator: Andre Dubus

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2019

Synopsis

It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer that everyone has something to teach Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime." Allie, his girlfriend, wants to teach him about love. Her father, the local communist and civil rights organizer, lectures him on politics and carpentry. And Ryder, a family friend, wants to show Leo the magic of the harmonica—harp of the blues.

However, when Leo's life threatens to come unglued, it is his mother's wisdom he turns to. Though she died before Leo was five, her voice lives on in her diaries and poems, testifying to the strength of her love for her husband and son—a love that can still, years later, offer consolation.

About Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III is the author of Gone So Long, Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on November 05, 2024

The first time I read this book in 2010, it helped get me out of the worst crippling depression I have ever experienced. I thought about death almost every single day. It was the opposite of fun. I had minimal will to push forward for almost an entire year and I think it's difficult for some to norm......more

Goodreads review by Vonia on May 03, 2017

The unfortunate side effect of an amazing book. Quite common, occurs more frequently than not. To what do I refer? The next book one reads by that author. To be fair, Andre Sinus III's "Bluesman" was published long before "The House of Sand and Fog" (this is notably his debut novel), but the result......more

Goodreads review by Dylan on November 06, 2023

Reread: November 2023 Original Review: May 2020 4.5/5 Fear kept me from picking up Bluesman before now. One was the curse of the sophomore slump, the other was knowing that once this was finished, I would have no new Andre Dubus III to read until his next release. And like most fear that's been confron......more

Goodreads review by Lacey on May 22, 2009

It always stuns me that I rarely hear people sing the praises of this book. I usually have to reassure myself that it's just because people haven't heard of this book, but then I'm left wondering why that is, when it is so, so good. The protagonist, Leo, is written with such clarity and precision th......more

Goodreads review by Rob on February 22, 2018

You don't have to be a fan of the blues to appreciate this lyrical novel, although you probably will be by the time you finish the book. Set in a small Western Massachusetts mill town during the summer of 1967, the story follows its 17-year-old protagonist as he navigates first love, the national ar......more

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