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Start giftingThe Keep
Length
8 hours 2 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Jeff Gurner & Geneva Carr
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Learn moreAward-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. 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.
JENNIFER EGAN is the author of four novels: A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus; and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.
Jeff Gurner has appeared on and off Broadway and in numerous regional theaters. His television credits include Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Mercy, Third Watch, and Rescue Me. He is an award-winning audiobook narrator known for his work on New York Times–bestselling author Daniel Suarez’s novels. Gurner is also one-half of the vaunted comedy music duo Joberg & Gurner. To learn more, visit jeffgurner.com.
Geneva Carr is a stage, television, and film actress living in Manhattan. She has toured North America in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, performed on stage with Mary Tyler Moore in Neil Simon’s Rose’s Dilemma, and played a laugh track in Christopher Durang’s Obie Award–winning play, Betty’s Summer Vacation. Her film and television credits include Sex and the City, Hope & Faith, Spin City, Third Watch, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chappelle’s Show, and The Three Little Wolfs.
Reviews
“This neo-gothic tale…luxuriates in Wilkie Collins-style atmospherics.”
“Prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving.”
“Irresistibly suspenseful.”
“The Keep is a wonderfully weird read—a touch experimental in terms of narrative, with a hefty dose of gothic tension and mystery—balanced by an intimate and mesmerizing look at how the past haunts us in different ways.”“A deft mix of psychological suspense, unconventional romance, and eerie allegory…This spellbinding novel kept us glued to the page right up to its haunting, unforgettable conclusion.”
“Jeff Gurner and Geneva Carr give flawless star turns. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
“The Keep is a clever, quirky novel that ping-pongs the listener between a medieval castle that kept people out and a modern prison that fences people in until the two worlds collide.”
“Beautiful prose…the characters’ emotions are so real, the author’s insights so moving, that readers will be happy to be swept away. Intelligent, challenging and exciting.”
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