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The Keepers of Truth: Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize
Michael Collins
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Paperback. "Commissioning organisation: Michael Collins. 297 p. 20 cm. Paperback. Fine clean copy, nearly as new." Keywords: "Fiction - Authors, A-Z - ( C ),Fiction - Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards - General,Fiction - Contempo"
It is the mid-80s in post-industrial America. In a small town graced with the decaying hulks of defunct factories, young journalist and college dropout Bill churns out lengthy essays on the death of industry and of America itself for The Daily Truth, whose scoops rarely rise above the latest home-bake contest. The static summer is punctured when local bad boy Ronny Lawton reports his father missing. A dismembered finger is found and all suspect the son of murdering his hated father, but nothing can be proved. The sorry tale of the white trash Lawtons hypnotises the town and Ronny Lawton ... Read more
It is the mid-80s in post-industrial America. In a small town graced with the decaying hulks of defunct factories, young journalist and college dropout Bill churns out lengthy essays on the death of industry and of America itself for The Daily Truth, whose scoops rarely rise above the latest home-bake contest. The static summer is punctured when local bad boy Ronny Lawton reports his father missing. A dismembered finger is found and all suspect the son of murdering his hated father, but nothing can be proved. The sorry tale of the white trash Lawtons hypnotises the town and Ronny Lawton ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753811023
SKU
KEX0160994
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99-1
About Michael Collins
Michael Collins was born in 1964 in Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of six novels, and two collections of short stories. His work has garnered numerous awards, including a Pushcart Award for Best American Short Stories, The Kerry Ingredients Irish Novel of the Year, along with being shortlisted for The Booker Prize and IMPAC Prize. Collins is also an ... Read more
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