Synopses & Reviews
The solitude of the Upper Michigan Peninsula is Michael Collinss heart of darkness in this compelling story of the unquiet dead. Frank Cassidys parents burned to death almost thirty years ago; now his uncle is deadshot by a mysterious stranger who lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank, working menial jobs to support his unfaithful wife and two children, heads north in a series of stolen cars to dispute his cousins claim to the family farm. Once there, Frank wants answers, but realizes that what he is searching forand the promise of the American Dreamis quickly receding from his grasp. Brilliant and unsettling, The Resurrectionists is an ironic yet chilling display of American culture in the seventies and a compassionate novel about a man struggling to overcome the crimes and burdens of his past.
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No crime writer alive is hunting bigger gameand doing it better than Michael Collins. (Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential)
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Like Raymond Carver, Michael Collins is interested in how lives of quiet desperation are lived. (The Observer, London)
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The biggest mysteries are those buried deep within ourselves. Michael Collins knows this in the marrow of his bones. (Michael Connelly, author of The Narrows)
About the Author
Michael Collins is the author of several works of fiction, including The Keepers of Truth, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Lost Souls. Born and raised in Ireland, he immigrated to America to attend college on an athletic scholarship and is a world- class extreme athlete.