Townie a Memoir by Andre Dubus III

Author:Andre Dubus III
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: 20th century, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Andre, American, Authors, Biography & Autobiography, American - 20th century, Dubus, Biography
ISBN: 9780393064667
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-02-28T13:42:59+00:00

FOR THE first time since I was fifteen and began to change my body with weights, I had no place to train. If there was a barbell gym in Lynn I couldn’t find it, and even though I was working with my body all day long all week long, sweating and breathing hard for so much of each shift, it wasn’t enough. My chest muscles felt smaller, my shoulders and arms too, and when I flexed my upper back, it didn’t flare as much as it used to. Despite all my training, I had never become big, just hard and fit, but now whatever muscle I’d built was atrophying. I felt vulnerable, like a knight who has slipped off his steel-plated armor and gone back into the world without it. I was no longer the small, soft boy Clay Whelan and the others had beat up, but a cool irrational fear welled in my gut that if I didn’t find a gym, I would slide back into being that boy all over again, and as soon as I did, that’s when they’d come for me.

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