The Kept
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Reminiscent of Charles Portis, Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, a gothic western transferred to the ice-locked wilds of upstate New York at the turn of the 20th century, a brutal and searing debut novel about a mother's obsession and a son's search...
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Reminiscent of Charles Portis, Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, a gothic western transferred to the ice-locked wilds of upstate New York at the turn of the 20th century, a brutal and searing debut novel about a mother's obsession and a son's search for answers in the wake of a terrible and violent tragedy.
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Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept-a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family.In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men responsible.
A scorching portrait of a merciless world-of guilt and lost innocence, atonement and retribution, resilience and sacrifice, pregnant obsession and primal adolescence-The Kept introduces an old-beyond-his-years protagonist as indelible and heartbreaking as Mattie Ross of True Grit or Jimmy Blevins of All the Pretty Horses, as well as a shape-shifting mother as enigmatic and mysterious as a character drawn by Russell Banks or Marilynne Robinson.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Scott
- 2014, 357 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0062236733
- ISBN-13: 9780062236739
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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