Hurt People: A Novel
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Summer of 1988. Leavenworth, Kansas: a town with four major prisons, gripped by the recent escape of a convict. Yet for two young brothers, all that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. They spend their blissful days practicing dives while their divorcée mother works her day shift at the golf course and their policeman father patrols the streets. But when a mysterious stranger appears poolside and creates a rift between the brothers, the younger one wonders just what these visits to the pool might ultimately cost.
Based on Cote Smith's well-received short story of the same name, Hurt People will hold you in its grip to the very last page. Eerily atmospheric, lean, and forceful, this is a debut from a slyly talented new writer.
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Cote Smith. (2016). Hurt People: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cote Smith. 2016. Hurt People: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cote Smith, Hurt People: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cote Smith. Hurt People: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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Summer of 1988. Leavenworth, Kansas: a town with four major prisons, gripped by the recent escape of a convict. Yet for two young brothers, all that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. They spend their blissful days practicing dives while their divorcée mother works her day shift at the golf course and their policeman father patrols the streets. But when a mysterious stranger appears poolside and creates a rift between the brothers, the younger one wonders just what these visits to the pool might ultimately cost.
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December 14, 2015
In Smith’s tense, haunting debut novel, expanded from his noted short story in One Story, the year is 1988 in Leavenworth, Kan., a nexus of four prisons, where we meet two brothers, nine and 11, whose parents have recently split. The boys move with their mother into an apartment complex, where they become obsessed with its swimming pool. Their father is a police officer who is busy trying to track down a killer who has just escaped from Leavenworth Prison, which sets off a panic in the community. Left to their own devices at the pool, the boys meet Chris, a charismatic stranger, and fall under his spell. Their harried mother is so distracted by money problems and her sleazy boyfriend, Rick, who manages the golf course where she works, that she is unaware of her sons’ secret friend and his growing influence over them, especially the older one. Once Chris’s true nature is revealed, readers will be reminded of The Night of the Hunter for its depiction of two youthful innocents forced to confront implacable evil. Smith has his story narrated by the younger brother, who at times seems to have a too-mature grasp of all the bad adult behavior surrounding him. Although the premise is a little convenient and the narrative sometimes feels padded, the author compensates with razor-sharp characterizations, a richly evoked period setting, and the sense of a community forever living in the shadow of fear. Agent: Claudia Ballard, WME Entertainment.
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A debut novel with red herrings steeped in mind-numbing heat and bone-chilling darkness deep in the modern American prairie. Prisons are the major industry in Leavenworth, Kansas, and business is booming in the summer of 1988--even if maintaining those prisons apparently means the city can't afford to build a new public library. Meanwhile, there's an escaped prisoner on the loose--a fact that two young boys, sons of a local policeman, are trying hard to ignore as they live from one hot day to the next, swimming and diving in the pool at their divorced mom's apartment complex. Yet the brothers invent a name for the escapee, "The Stranger," and he becomes part of the fantasy world they invent to escape a dreary reality comprising a father who's less than sure of his own law enforcing capabilities either at home or on the streets and a mother haplessly engaged in a romance with a sleazy ex-con who works at the same golf course pro shop she does. Prominent among the other bigger people in the brothers' lives is Chris, who one days materializes at the pool; for all his amiable coaching of the boys' diving techniques, he seems as enigmatic to the younger brother as he is engaging to the older one. As the summer drags on (and as, intermittently, the novel does), the humid atmosphere around the brothers' world becomes freighted with ominous portents: the search for "The Stranger" stalls, the threat of tornadoes increases, both parents become more depressed, and the older brother becomes more violent and temperamental, imperiling the strong bond he has with his younger sibling. This first novel represents an expansion of a short story by Smith (who grew up in Leavenworth), and at times, it seems to strain from the added development. But Smith's spare, taut prose, along with the empathy he brings even to characters neither you nor the boys like much, compensates for such lapses, as does a flair for raw, gut-clutching menace shared by masters of rural American gothic. Smith's not in their company yet. But, in time, he could be. Through every sad, ugly twist of this story, you feel yourself wanting to turn away, but you can't.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Smith's first novel, expanded from a short story, is set in Leavenworth, Kansas, home to four prisons. Since their parents' divorce, the young narrator and his older brother have been living in an apartment complex with their mom and spending weekends with their dad. Both parents work full-timemom has a job in a golf-course pro shop, and dad is a copand the boys are often left to fend for themselves. The apartment complex's pool is a lure. Mom forbids them to go to the pool on their own, but they go anyway and encounter a man who calls himself Chris and teaches the narrator's brother to dive. The boys are close, but the older brother starts to draw away and spend more time with Chris. Meanwhile, a prisoner whom their dad helped put away is on the loose, and the escaped convict and the horror movies the boys watch with their dad are conflated in the narrator's imagination, adding to a growing sense of menace. Smith does a remarkably convincing job of showing a vulnerable eight-year-old trying to make sense of the confounding world of adults.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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