Book description
A novel from the author of Say That to My Face
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. David Prete is an actor, voice coach and writer
of Say It to My Face, published in 2004. He lives in New York.
