The Keepers of Truth
by Michael Collins
Buy on AmazonIt 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 grandfather¿s dream of America. The static summer is punctured when local bad boy Ronny Lawton reports his father missing.…
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"In this noirish mystery, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, a frustrated news reporter—trapped in a dead-end job writing about local fundraisers—finds his postindustrial town oddly reinvigorated by a high-profile murder investigation, and can’t help but insert himself into proceedings. The Independent called it a “a complex and literary book”, that is also “fast-paced and cinematic”: a “fabulous fusion of hard-boiled mystery and American social history.” The Keepers of Truth was also shortlisted for the €100,000 Dublin Literary Award in 2002."
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