· The Butcher's Sons. This darkly lyrical and violent family saga set in a butcher shop in New York circa tells the story about three Irish brothers, each struggling to find their role--to define their lives and express their dreams--amid the poverty of a broken home, alcoholic father, and the violent society of Hell's Kitchen/5(8). "In his brutal and moving third novel, Scott Hess exhibits exciting new range by tackling the tense, dramatic story of three wholly different brothers living and working together in Hell's Kitchen in the s. The risks for these ‘Butcher's Sons’ are many, and the stakes sky high, as each finds his own definition of what it is to be a man.”. · This darkly lyrical and violent family saga set in a butcher shop in New York circa tells the story about three Irish brothers, each struggling to find their role—to define their lives and express their dreams—amid the poverty of a broken home, alcoholic father, and .
The Butcher's Sons. By Scott Alexander Hess. You have subscribed to alerts for Scott Alexander Hess. You will receive an email alert if one or more of the authors you're following has a new release. If you like, you can change the digest interval below. You can view and manage. This darkly lyrical and violent family saga set in a butcher shop in New York circa tells the story about three Irish brothers, each struggling to find their role—to define their lives and express their dreams—amid the poverty of a broken hom. BY SCOTT ALEXANDER HESS When I wrote my new Lethe Press novel The Butcher's Sons, a book about three brothers living in their father's butcher shop in the gritty world of 's Hell's Kitchen, I spent two weeks in Ireland researching their great-grandfather's back story. by admin in On Revision.
Scott Alexander Hess’ The Butcher’s Sons is not so much a crime novel in the traditional sense, as a novel about the violent bonds of brotherhood. Hess—author of three other New York based novels—tells a brutal and lyrically gorgeous story of three Irish brothers’ during the s as they transgress social and moral norms to satisfy their desires, despite the dire consequences. The Butcher's Sons. likes. A Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of Scott's novel is a darkly lyrical and violent family saga about three Irish brothers in NYC circa , Lethe Press. by Scott Alexander Hess ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. In this novel, set in s New York, the lives of three brothers diverge and intertwine as each finds his own pathway to manhood. Hess’ (Bergdorf Boys, , etc.) latest work is a brutally dark, lyrical fairy tale in which three siblings pursue their respective journeys through life while finding their places within a shattered family.
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