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Old Newgate Road : a novel, Keith Scribner

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Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years--not since he was a teenager, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now, however, he finally dares to risk it, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast, and is shocked to discover his elderly father, freed from prison, living alone in their old home, and succumbing to dementia. Compelled by a sense of responsibility to a man he hates, and confronted in middle age by everything he'd left unfinished when he fled this place in his aborted childhood, he finds that the time for a reckoning has at last come. Matters grow even more complicated when his estranged wife calls to say their ultra-progressive, rabble-rousing son has run up against the law and been expelled from high school. And so Cole summons Daniel to East Granby to work in the tobacco fields--his own job growing up--and soon their lives are enmeshed with the family legacy, and with Cole's boyhood sweetheart as well as his nemesis. What unfolds over this summer surprises and challenges them all, as they contend with the sinister history they share and desperately try to invent a future that isn't doomed by it. Moving, insightful, and suspenseful, Old Newgate Road is a masterful portrait of a haunted family and successive generations of men struggling against all odds and often violent impulses to truly know one another and their loved ones, and to somehow come to terms with themselves. --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
299 pages
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
  • Subtitle taken from cover
Isbn
9780525521792
Instance
Label
Old Newgate Road : a novel
Title
Old Newgate Road
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Keith Scribner
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years--not since he was a teenager, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now, however, he finally dares to risk it, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast, and is shocked to discover his elderly father, freed from prison, living alone in their old home, and succumbing to dementia. Compelled by a sense of responsibility to a man he hates, and confronted in middle age by everything he'd left unfinished when he fled this place in his aborted childhood, he finds that the time for a reckoning has at last come. Matters grow even more complicated when his estranged wife calls to say their ultra-progressive, rabble-rousing son has run up against the law and been expelled from high school. And so Cole summons Daniel to East Granby to work in the tobacco fields--his own job growing up--and soon their lives are enmeshed with the family legacy, and with Cole's boyhood sweetheart as well as his nemesis. What unfolds over this summer surprises and challenges them all, as they contend with the sinister history they share and desperately try to invent a future that isn't doomed by it. Moving, insightful, and suspenseful, Old Newgate Road is a masterful portrait of a haunted family and successive generations of men struggling against all odds and often violent impulses to truly know one another and their loved ones, and to somehow come to terms with themselves. --
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(adapted from book jacket)
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Scribner, Keith
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3569.C735
LC item number
O43 2019
Literary form
novels
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Tobacco farms
  • Fathers and sons
  • Uxoricide
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Family violence
  • Aging parents
  • East Granby (Conn. : Town)
  • FICTION / Family Life
  • FICTION / Literary
  • FICTION / Small Town & Rural
  • Aging parents
  • Tobacco farms
  • Fathers and sons
  • Uxoricide
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Family violence
  • East Granby (Conn. : Town)
  • Aging parents
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Family violence
  • Fathers and sons
  • Tobacco farms
  • Uxoricide
  • Connecticut
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Old Newgate Road : a novel, Keith Scribner
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Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
  • Subtitle taken from cover
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1027732312
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
299 pages
Isbn
9780525521792
Lccn
2018008094
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1027732312
Label
Old Newgate Road : a novel, Keith Scribner
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
  • Subtitle taken from cover
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1027732312
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
299 pages
Isbn
9780525521792
Lccn
2018008094
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1027732312

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