The Keepers of Truth: Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize
Author(s): Michael Collins
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000, The Keepers of Truth is the highly-acclaimed new novel from a rich and unpredictable talent. 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 becomes a local icon. Bill becomes increasingly obsessed with the story - he gets involved with Ronny's estranged wife, finds a decomposing human head, and ends up as a suspect in the murder case himself. Things come to a head and Ronny Lawton holds his wife, child and Bill hostage in a confrontation with the FBI. Bill escapes with the woman and child and contemplates the American dream gon e sour.
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The Keepers of Truth was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize Received widespread critical acclaim on hardback publication 'The best I've read this year. Unputdownable' Time Out 'Thoroughly edged, thoroughly enjoyable, The Keepers of Truth is an impressive performance from a rich and unpredictable talent' Irish Times 'Michael Collins is a fine writer who brilliantly captures the incestuousness of small-town existence and the slow death of a community' The Times 'A compelling hybrid of tight-twisted mystery and thought-provoking meditation on a nation which is cannibalising its own values' Sunday Times
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2000 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002.
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 extreme athlete and has won The Last Marathon in the Antarctic and set a record time in winning both The Himalayan 100 Mile Stage Race and The Everest Challenge Marathon. He is currently training for The North Pole Marathon in 2006. www.michaelcollinsauthor.com
General Fields
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- : Orion
- : old phoenix
- : 0.0
- : 01 August 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Michael Collins
- : Paperback
- : 823.914