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Prose with bite. A dark new novel from much-praised young Irish writer
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Michael Collins was born in 1964. He was educated in Belfast, Dublin and Chicago. His short stories have been awarded the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Award in Ireland and the Pushcart Prize in America.
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The Keepers of Truth: Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize
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W&N 27/01/2000, 2000
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The Keepers of Truth: Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. It is the mid-80s in post-industrial America. Men no longer produce things with their hands but Pac-man consumer culture has yet to lift the recession. 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. Bill broods over the suicide of his father and the decline of their family an industrial empire built on refrigerators and founded on his immigrant grandfathers dream of America. 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 Ronnys 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 gone sour. Michael Collins writing is sharp and intense the decline of the town, of an era, of a culture, of individual lives, is detailed in a gripping narrative. Intertwined with a meditation on the state of America and on failed dreams is the story of the axe-murder investigation which keeps you on the edge of your seat as the characters rush headlong to their destruction cathartic and inevitable. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR004150800
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The Keepers of Truth : A Novel
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Etat : Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. N° de réf. du vendeur 6545-9781861591784
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The Keepers of Truth.
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Hardcover. First Ed UK, later printing. Very Good+ in Fine DJ: Book shows a little spine lean, but the binding remains perfectly secure; text clean. DJ is flawless; price unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo.297pp. First Ed UK, later printing. Hardback with DJ. Beautifully written with very real people and scenes of harrowing behavior by otherwise ordinary people. The elevation of suspected murderer Ronny Lawton to local folk hero at Denny's, where he becomes employee of the month as a result of his sudden popularity among the high school crowd is frightening in the depth of its truth. Bill, the young narrator, is a lost, desperately lonely man whose life has become a twisted, painful thing because of an absence of familial love; a man whose grandfather was a tyrannical self-made immigrant millionaire and whose father was a suicide. Bill is brilliant, almost too aware of society deconstructing before his eyes, and a truly touching character. Engaging also is Bill's fascination with Lucas, the child of Ronny Lawton's "estranged"--as she is referred to throughout the book--with whom Bill becomes involved, almost against his will. At the end, there is the hope that Bill will rescue little Lucas from a fate too similar to his own. And that is something remarkably uplifting in a book that is so very grim. Recommended. N° de réf. du vendeur 40121
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The Keepers of Truth : A Novel (Signed 1st British)
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition third impression in fine condition in a near fine unclipped dustjacket--signed by Collins on the title page without inscription. Shortlisted for the Booker prize. The dustjacket has just a touch of rubbing or would also be fine--a great collectible copy. Signed at Foyles. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur cfe13677
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The Keepers of Truth
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THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH.
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Phoenix House / Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000
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Etat : FINE. First printing. Award winning Irish writer's fifh book, a novel set in 1980s obsessed by a murder. "Truth" is the name of the moribund local newspaper. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 79576
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