Michael Collins
The keepers of truth
En anglais – 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.