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The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins
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ABOUT
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| Almost thirty years ago, when Frank was five, his parents burned to death in a remote Michigan town. Now Frank's uncle is dead too, shot by a mysterious stranger who is lying in a coma in the local hospital. Frank wants answers to questions about his own past, and he believes that the stranger might be able to supply them. He leaves New Jersey and heads north, back to the town where he never belonged, to find out why his uncle dies, and why people still shrink when they hear his name. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michael Collins was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1964. His fiction has received international critical acclaim and his work has been translated into numerous languages. He is the author of two collections of short stories, The Meat Eaters and The Feminists Go Swimming, and three previous novels, The Life and Times of a Teaboy, Emerald Underground and The Keepers of Truth, which won the Kerry Ingredients Book of the Year Award for Best Irish Novel and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and for the 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. |
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