August and Then Some - Softcover

Prete, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007438796 ISBN 13: 9780007438792

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2012

Synopsis

A gripping literary novel from a striking new voice in American fiction.New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working in his friend's father's garage, of studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed.`August and then some' is a taut and gripping family drama, in which horrifying secrets kept between father and daughter, and mother and son, explode during one tragic night. Set over the course of two summers, it is a novel of revenge and the difficulty of repentance and forgiveness.Jaggedly beautiful and intensely realised, tightly plotted yet expansive, this debut novel is the coming-of-age of a striking new voice in American fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

David Prete is an actor, voice coach and writer of Say It to My Face, published in 2004. He lives in New York.

Review:

`David Prete is scary good. He is a heartbreaking talent, born to this line of work, our very own Bronx Chekhov.' Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of `Eat, Pray, Love'`Electrifying ... August And Then Some weaves a raw and tantalising tale of revenge and repentance, played out when a Pandora's box of family secrets implodes' Sunday Herald

About this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007438796
• ISBN 13: 9780007438792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259