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The Kept

James Scott

Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.28 | 6646 Users | 1099 Reviews

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ISBN:	0062236733 (ISBN13: 9780062236739)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014)

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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.

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Title	:	The Kept
Author	:	James Scott
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	January 7th 2014 by Harper (first published January 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller

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Ratings: 3.28 From 6646 Users | 1099 Reviews

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This is a very dark story , set in the late 19th century, in rural upstate New York. The beginning is very brutal and very explicit and it is this that will set Elspeth the mother, and Caleb who is still very young, twelve or thirteen, on a quest for vengeance.Extremely well written for a first novel, it is very atmospheric and hard to forget. The scenes, the dialogue all are so vividly portrayed, what they have seen and what they go through so hard to forget. A boy, who had to grow up quickly

Do not look past this book thinking its not your thing, you dont like historical fiction or the plot is not exciting you. I overcame all these things and gave this a whirl and boy am I glad I did.The book just blew me away, what a dark, atmospheric emotional novel this is, absolutely unique from anything I have read for a long time. It will stay with me for a while, I still keep thinking back on this book and it's characters. It's haunting and it's haunting me.What's the book about?It is the

a four-star that melted into a 3.5 by the end. review to come, if i ever get internet back at my place....nope, still no internet, but it's fun to come to the office on weekends!this book starts out strong - it is 1897 in upstate new york. a woman trudges through the deep snow to her isolated home after a prolonged absence only to find her husband and four of her children murdered, their bodies scattered all over the house and yard, the killers long gone. after lying beside her husband's body

Bleak, disturbing and skillfully written tale of vengeance and morality set in the late 1800's. A woman comes home to her isolated farm to find everyone in her family murdered except for one son. They set out together to find the killers in the frozen winter of upstate New York. Tense, hopeless and dark, the pair take up residence in a nearby town until ..... well, you get the point. A good read. Not for Jodi Picoult fans. But Cormac McCarthy, yes.

If someone were to tell you that The Kept involved cross dressing and serial murder, youd be forgiven for thinking youd stumbled on a new contemporary thriller. But James Scotts debut, while thrilling, is set in rural upstate New York c: 1900. It tells the story of a mother and son who set off for a rough, rural town in search of the killers who murdered their family; there, they make some discoveries, all right--not just about the criminals, but also about their own damaged selves. This debut

This was one of those books the deserved every ounce of praise it received. An extraordinarily well crafted debut novel. The Kept is a tale of revenge set in 1897 in upstate New York. During an unforgiving winter in a place as brutal and desolate as the cover suggests, a boy and his mother set off to avenge the horrific murders of their family. This takes them to a town where the past and present collide, very violently. This is a very bleak very dark story that starts off and ends in blood, a