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The Keepers of Truth

Michael Collins

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#1411 of 8,085 books · #436 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2002) and the Booker Prize (2000).

The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the Truth, the moribund local paper. He yearns to write long philosophical pieces about the American dream gone sour, not the flaccid write-ups of bake-off contests demanded by the Truth. Then, old man Lawton goes missing, and suspicion fixes on his son, Ronny. Paradoxically, the specter of violent death breathes new life into the town. For Bill, a deeper and more disturbing involvement with the Lawtons ensues. The Lawton murder and the obsessions it awakes in the town come to symbolize the mood of a nation on the edge.

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Publisher
Phoenix House
ISBN-13
9780743223614
Topics
Small town declineMurder investigationAmerican dream

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