Awards
The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
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The Man Booker Prize (nominee)
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 gone sour.
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Hardback Editions
October 2001 : Hardback
| Title: Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 1417720794 / 9781417720798 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
January 2000 : Hardback
| Title: The Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 1861591780 / 9781861591784 (UK edition) Publisher: W&N Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon |
Paperback Editions
September 2001 : Paperback
| Title: The Keepers of Truth: A Novel Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 0743218035 / 9780743218030 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
May 2001 : Paperback
| Title: The Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 0753811022 / 9780753811023 (UK edition) Publisher: Phoenix Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
May 2001 : Paperback
| Title: The Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 0753812592 / 9780753812594 (UK edition) Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Availability: Amazon CA |
March 2000 : Paperback
| Title: The Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: 1861591799 / 9781861591791 (UK edition) Publisher: Phoenix Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
November 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Keepers of Truth Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: B005XBUGOG Publisher: Phoenix Availability: Amazon UK |
November 2001 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Keepers of Truth: A Novel Author(s):: Michael Collins ISBN: B000FC0QKM Publisher: Simon & Schuster Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
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