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The Keepers of Truth
The Keepers of Truth: A Novel | Michael Collins
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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. Compulsively readable, The Keepers of Truth startles both with its insights and with Collins's powerful, incisive writing.
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#booked2019 17 'gifted to you'
The joy of this challenge so far is picking up books i have left languishing for years and finding a gem. This was a story set in the early 1980s in American heartland in a town decimated by the decline of traditional industry. The central character bill is a young reporter on the local paper who gets drawn into the disappearance of a local man and the seedier side of the community. Really interesting read.

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Home from our week away and back on the summer challenge using it as an opportunity to dig into the huge pile of unread books sitting unloved in the spare bedroom and i cdn't believe this was a present for my 40th birthday (aargh) in 2001!!! And so far really enjoying plus daughter arrived home today with this brill book mark with a bit of Berlin Wall attached.

Smrloomis Sometimes I think I should write in every book when I buy or receive it...and then I think better of that idea. I‘d rather not know! 5y
TrishB But they never go off so it‘s fine 😁 they just wait for us. 5y
Cinfhen So great you kept the note!!!! And fabulous bookmark ❤️Hope the book like wine, ages to perfection 😉 5y
Cathythoughts Lovely to have the birthday note! Memories 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Aww. Nice. ♥️📚👊🏻 5y
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