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Dewitt’s
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2025
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.91
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Dewitt’s first review of the year
it was amazing
This eloquent memoir of apprenticeship, friendship, and tribute to fiction writer Andre Dubus (pere) reminds me of Gorki's classic account of Tolstoy or more recently Tom Grimes’s of Frank Conroy. Torches of craft and spirit are shared, and then passed on. First taught by Dubus at Bradford College, then by James AlanMcPherson at Iowa, Hurka becomes a teacher at Tufts and Emerson and a notable writer himself. He learns lessons concerning voice (“w
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