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About the Book

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?

About the Author :
James Scott was born in Boston and grew up in upstate New York. He has published short fiction in literary reviews and journals, including Ploughshares, One Story and American Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and dog. The Kept is his first novel.

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"Dark and mysterious. A novel whose daring is found in its bleakness. The plot unfolds with a weighty languor reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. Sparse, elegant. haunting." New York Times "Winter and discontent. The future Richard II pairs those elements in the first line of Shakespeare's play, and they are also paired with piercing chill in James Scott's debut. Scott is a master of mood. Gothic both in structure and atmosphere. haunting." -- Alyson Hagy New York Times "Feels like the shell of a Cormac McCarthy novel filled with the intricate yearning and familial strife of a Lorca play. A gripping combination I don't think we're likely to find anywhere else." The Rumpus "Dark and brutal. Never lets up until the climactic scene, in prose that's brooding and intense right up until the final paragraph. So packed with incident and character, and so fluidly paced, that it's brought vividly to life by Scott's meticulous control" Toronto Star "Scott is [a] master storyteller in this outstanding debut" Kirkus (starred review)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781473505681
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • ISBN-10: 1473505682
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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