David Scott Milton's Books
Feb.01.2001
Paul Dogolov, divorced Vietnam War hero and novelist, teaches a writing class in a maximum security prison. Convinced that one of his students, serving a life sentence for brutal murder, is innocent, he sets out to find the real killer. The search leads him to a remote, dust-blasted California desert town and a scorpion's nest of bizarre and vicious characters. The result is a...
Aug.12.1980
"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...
Aug.07.1974
A man out to beat Las Vegas at its own game-- putting his money, his woman, his life on the line-- "The drive to win at blackjack is the lifeblood that keeps this novel alive and kicking until the last apocalyptic hand."
"It was my misfortune to have missed The Quarterback, and thus be unaware of this fine, unflinching writer. He does not prettify, embroider,...
Oct.01.1970
The toughest, rawest novel ever written about pro football. He wouldn't play by the rules-- on the field or off... Robert Lipsyte’s New York Times’ year-end book recommendations: “From that rarest shelf, interesting sports fiction, The Quarterback.”
On a steamy summer day in 1920, as the blood-red sun sets over New York's Hudson River, the leaders of two rival gangs from the Irish and Jewish ghettos slug it out on the Fulton Street docks. That day, Tony McGrath and Mike Roth fight to a bloody draw-- the first of many battles that will propel them from the streets to the world heavyweight championship ring and beyond, into the...
David Scott Milton is that rare contemporary American writer whose body of work represents an honest and authentic study of the mysteries of the human heart. In Iron City he creates a fast-moving and original plot, and a lead character whose pain and passion haunt the reader long after the story's end.
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—Gina Nahai, Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Caspian Rain
About David Scott
David Scott Milton is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His plays are known for their theatricality, wild humor, and poetic realism, while his novels and films are darker and more naturalistic. As a novelist, he has been compared to Graham...