Scott Ely

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction

Ely's last, terse novel has Chalmers Plumb wanting to manufacture his father's canoe design until his father is murdered by barbed wire strung across a river. Chalmers then saves a Romanian sculptress from attempted suicide but the local preacher den...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction

An unprecedented series of hurricanes has swollen the Mississippi River to unheard-of levels and is threatening to put New Orleans and most of the low-lying areas of the South under water. Fifteen-year-old Stephen is spending the summer with his fath...

• Oct-2008
• / Action Adventure

Pender Hartwell, an infantryman sickened by the war, deserts to the North Vietnamese. In Hanoi he is put in the hands of a literary-inclined intelligence officer, who teaches him to speak Vietnamese. Together they read the chief work of Vietnamese li...

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction

Charlene is an underground dump fire. Louis Sabine is a dead Marine who played the sax. Together, can they help end the racial tension building in Pine, after the needless death of a young mother and her daughter, plus the murder of an aunt whose voo...

• Jan-2005
• / Action Adventure

Fiction. Scott Ely's latest novel is the chronicle of two down-river journeys, disparate in time, but oddly merging in intensity, and finally, intent. When Robert Day discovers a French diary written by an ex-slave named Octavius-who fled to Haiti af...

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction

Loners of one sort or another populate Ely's fiction, from a young man discharged from the marines and working as a solitary gamekeeper to a Vietnam veteran turned professor who exchanges favorable grades for sexual favors from his students. Whatever...

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction

Loners of one sort or another populate Ely's fiction, from a young man discharged from the marines and working as a solitary gamekeeper to a Vietnam veteran turned professor who exchanges favorable grades for sexual favors from his students. Whate...

• May-1988
• / General Fiction

As two soldiers, Jackson, a radioman, and light, a sniper, reach the limits of physical and psychological danger during the Vietnam War, they find that they can no longer distinguish hallucination from reality...

• / General Fiction

The grief, hostility, and competition felt by a father and son who have lost their farm, mother, and wife and who vie for the same woman is manifested only in their pit bull, trained to excel at fighting...