'Hit First, Hit Hard'

‘Hit First, Hit Hard’

James Salter

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Townie: A Memoir
by Andre Dubus III
Norton, 387 pp., $25.95

Townie is not really about town and gown, it’s about the way of the warrior described in straightforward, driving prose that feels almost like the present tense. Dubus is a writer keenly alert to the physical world, its smells, colors, shapes, and substance, and you sense the desire to put things down clearly and exactly so that they will be remembered.

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