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David Scott Milton, Writer
Category:
Literary Fiction
Type: Fiction
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For connoisseurs of literary inconsequentia and narishkeit, the early novels of David Scott Milton have been reissued by the Authors Guild Back-in-Print program. Spanking new prefaces offer insight as to why Milton’s work keeps ricocheting back like a bad penny.
Paradise Road
Fiction / Literary
Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Jul-2007
Price: $16.95
Size: 6 x 9
Author: David Scott Milton
ISBN: 0-595-45497-6
286 Pages
On Demand Printing
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An Authors Guild backinprint.com Edition
"It was my misfortune to have missed The Quarterback, and thus be unaware of this fine, unflinching writer. He does not prettify, embroider, ornament or otherwise offend against the utter dignity of his hard, enduring characters; out of their meanness and misery, he has made a story which I envy, in prose as clean and businesslike as a switchblade. Make sure everybody hears about this book; it’s not about a gambler and a broad and a fighter at all—it’s about the human condition, and it’s beautiful."—George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle
“The drive to win at blackjack is the lifeblood that keeps this novel alive and kicking until the last apocalyptic hand.” --New York Times
"Milton can write like angel … a young writer hell bent on fulfilling John Steinbeck’s legacy, carrying on the tradition of James Jones and exploring his own heights.” – Alabama Journal
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The Quarterback
Fiction / Literary
Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Jun-2007
Price: $13.95
Size: 6 x 9
Author: David Scott Milton
ISBN: 0-595-45513-1
198 Pages
On Demand Printing
Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, and from iUniverse, Inc
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An Authors Guild backinprint.com Edition
Jimmy Jassy has been on the top five years now, but the clock was running out. All he had left were the remnants of his incredible skills, and his snarling pride in being the man they called—The Quarterback.
"From that rarest shelf, interesting sports fiction."—Robert Lipsyte, New York Times
On Paradise Road: "Milton can write like angel … a young writer hell bent on fulfilling John Steinbeck’s legacy, carrying on the tradition of James Jones and exploring his own heights."—Alabama Journal
"A pulsating, evocative tale that will take the reader months to forget."—American Statesman
Kabbalah
Fiction / Literary
Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Jun-2007
Price: $19.95
Size: 6 x 9
Author: David Scott Milton
ISBN: 0-595-45512-3
354 Pages
Available from Amazon, Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, and from iUniverse, Inc
To order call 1-800-AUTHORS
An Authors Guild backinprint.com Edition
"Three men who grew up together in a tough Pittsburgh neighborhood—a football hero destroyed by drugs and spurious promise, a rabbi who doubts his abilities and calling, a bitter policeman eaten up by fear and envy—are linked again by a seemingly senseless killing. The ancient Jewish mystical tract known as the Kabbalah plays an important—and completely unforced—part in Milton’s tense story, which ends up in a beautifully realized series of chilling scenes in Venice, California."—The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
“If Graham Greene’s thrillers fascinate you, if Brighton Rock gives you mental fever blisters, don’t miss this book. In a desolate underworld setting, Kabbalah generates continuous suspense and a haunting religious intensity. Like Greene, David Scott Milton uses people in danger to illuminate the interior drama of souls in jeopardy. And he goes further than Greene in one way. He ends the book with a vision of redemption which may be uniquely Jewish and is surely ecstatic.” -- West Coast Review of Books
“Will be read by a devoted audience long after other novels have been discarded!” – Chronicles of Culture
Excerpt
On Kabbalah
"Three men who grew up together in a tough Pittsburgh neighborhood—a football hero destroyed by drugs and spurious promise, a rabbi who doubts his abilities and calling, a bitter policeman eaten up by fear and envy—are linked again by a seemingly senseless killing. The ancient Jewish mystical tract known as the Kabbalah plays an important—and completely unforced—part in Milton’s tense story, which ends up in a beautifully realized series of chilling scenes in Venice, California."—The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
“If Graham Greene’s thrillers fascinate you, if Brighton Rock gives you mental fever blisters, don’t miss this book. In a desolate underworld setting, Kabbalah generates continuous suspense and a haunting religious intensity. Like Greene, David Scott Milton uses people in danger to illuminate the interior drama of souls in jeopardy. And he goes further than Greene in one way. He ends the book with a vision of redemption which may be uniquely Jewish and is surely ecstatic.” -- West Coast Review of Books
“Will be read by a devoted audience long after other novels have been discarded!” – Chronicles of Culture
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