A review by dylanperry
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
5.0
So. Good.
House of Sand and Fog is the most well known novel of Andre Dubus III and I'm glad it is. I'd gone into this hesitant--so much hype surrounded it and for me usually that leads to disappointment--but I come away from it feeling it may have usurped Townie as my favorite Dubus book. This story was beautiful from start to heartbreaking finish. And the audio book in particular was well done, both Dubus and his wife narrating and both doing a superb job. At first I wasn't sure of Dubus' accent and thought Fontaine's reading was far too fast, but they both soon grew on me and now I cannot imagine reading the book without their voices in my head. My one complaint would be that some of the Lester chapters dragged for me, especially the ones delving into his backstory. However these were a few pages, at most. The rest are gold.
House of Sand and Fog is the most well known novel of Andre Dubus III and I'm glad it is. I'd gone into this hesitant--so much hype surrounded it and for me usually that leads to disappointment--but I come away from it feeling it may have usurped Townie as my favorite Dubus book. This story was beautiful from start to heartbreaking finish. And the audio book in particular was well done, both Dubus and his wife narrating and both doing a superb job. At first I wasn't sure of Dubus' accent and thought Fontaine's reading was far too fast, but they both soon grew on me and now I cannot imagine reading the book without their voices in my head. My one complaint would be that some of the Lester chapters dragged for me, especially the ones delving into his backstory. However these were a few pages, at most. The rest are gold.