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Old Newgate RoadKeith Scribner

Old Newgate Road

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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…

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2 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2019
    Knopf · 320 pages · 9780525521792
  • Other · English · 2019
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780525563464
Tobacco farmsFictionFathers and sonsUxoricideDysfunctional familiesFamily violenceAging parentsCare