The garden of last days
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andre Dubus
Publisher: W.W. Norton; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9780393335309
Subjects: Elderly women; Older women; Stripteasers; Mother-daughter relationship; Fiction; Saudi Arabians; Life change events; Sex-oriented businesses; Mothers and daughters
Description: Explosive elements converge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed. Reluctantly bringing her daughter to her men's club office when her babysitter falls ill, stripper April endeavors to keep her child safe while servicing a wealthy foreign client, while a drunken regular angrily retaliates for being thrown out of the club.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in 2008. Reprinted in paperback in 2009 with a reading group guide (p. [538]-[542]).