The Keep
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000URWYRU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Are you claustrophobic?A: I almost never write about myself, or things that have happened in my own life, or about people I know. For example: I'm not claustrophobic, but I've certainly been paranoid, and the two are closely linked. I begin with very little: usually just a strong sense of time and place--of atmosphere--and a few abstract notions that I want to explore. One question is always at the center of such experiences: is this real, or am I making it up? We live in very paranoid times. --Daphne Durham 10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Jennifer EganQ: What is your writing process like? Has it differed from book to
And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results
Interesting, but ultimately disappointing Frank J. Konopka I suspect that the title reveals how I feel about this book. There's no doubt that it is well-written, with fully delineated characters, and a complicated plot which keeps the reder interested from the first page almost to the end. It's that "almost" place that troubled me, and led to the 3 star rating. Shortly before the ending, the whole plot just fell apart for me, a. Timothy Haugh said OK but Something of a Disappointment. I am a fan of Ms. Egan's first two novels, The Invisible Circus and Look at Me, so I expected to enjoy this third novel and I did. However, I would have enjoyed this book much more, I think, had she stuck to the plot generated by the title of the book.The story that takes place at the medieval castle with the keep towering over all is an excellent one. Howard, a wealthy. Hard to put down This novel by Jennifer Egan was a good read--stayed up to finish it. A strange, gothic sort of story. You keep thinking you know how things are going to go, but you don't. At the beginning I expected it to be just creepy, but finally it was almost anti-creepy.Look forward to reading more of Egan's stuff.