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The Kept

The Kept

by JamesScott (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Scott is a master of mood . (New York Times Book Review). How far would you go for your family, for love, for revenge? In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Elspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The only survivor is her twelve-year-old son who witnessed it all. Wounded, frightened and with retribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness to track down the red-scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood. Their journey leads them to a rough-hewn settlement on the edge of ice-filled Lake Erie, a merciless place where violence abounds. Here, forced into a brutal adulthood, Caleb begins to discover truths about his mother he could never have anticipated and Elspeth must finally confront the terrible urges that envelop her. All the while, the memory of Caleb's brothers and sisters presses him onwards. Big skies, deep snow, open wounds: The Kept delves deep into what it means to be a mother - and to be a son. It asks us how far we would go for our family, for love and, ultimately, for revenge?

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 13 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 0091944503
ISBN 13: 9780091944506
Book Overview: How far would you go for your family, for love, for survival, for revenge? A debut novel of big skies, deep snow, and open wounds, the ambition and sheer brilliance of The Kept is astonishing.

Media Reviews
A classily written crime novel that is also an atmospheric evocation of a bygone era. The Sunday Times Darkly beautiful... The Kept is a rare blend of brutality and empathy, emotion and close observation. I thought at times of Cormac McCarthy's work and of the novels of David Vann. At other times it brought to mind Stef Penney's The Tenderness Of Wolves and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But there's something wonderfully distinctive about The Kept... A literary page-turner of the highest calibre by a writer of serious talent. -- Jonathan Lee, author of JOY Mysterious and compelling... James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel. -- Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers With its vivid sense of time and place, lyrical writing, and complex questions of what constitutes a family, The Kept is an outstanding debut by a bright new voice in fiction. -- Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove Winter and discontent... Scott is the master of mood... Haunting' New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
James Scott has published short fiction in American literary reviews and journals, including Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction and Post Road, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. He writes for the music magazine Under the Radar, is an issue editor at One Story, and teaches at Grub Street in Boston. The Kept is his first novel and has been longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. He lives in western Massachusetts, America.