The Kept
by James Scott
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Pub Date 13 Feb 2014 | Archive Date 9 Apr 2019
Cornerstone, Penguin Random House | Hutchinson
Description
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANGELINA JOLIE*
'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?
Advance Praise
‘An outstanding debut
by a bright new voice in fiction.’ Ron Rash, author of The Cove
‘A literary page-turner of the highest calibre by a writer of serious
talent … 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. It belongs to James Scott and
James Scott alone.’ -Jonathan Lee, author of Joy
Scott is a master of mood’ New York Times Book Review
‘READ[S] WITH THE STARK CLARITY OF A JOHNNY CASH SONG’ Washington Post
‘A GENRE-BUSTING WORK’ Boston Globe
‘the shell of a Cormac McCarthy novel filled with the intricate yearning and familial strife of a Lorca play’ The Rumpus
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780091944506 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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