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    The Resurrectionists: A Novel

    By Michael Collins

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    The Booker and IMPAC Prize-nominated author of The Keepers of Truth delivers a haunting novel of psychological suspense about a wayward family's search for salvation in an America that has left them behind.

    The solitude of the Upper Michigan Peninsula is Michael Collins's heart of darkness in this compelling story of the unquiet dead. Almost thirty years ago, when Frank Cassidy 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 lies in a coma in the local hospital. Frank, working menial jobs to support his unfaithful wife and two children, takes his family north in a series of stolen cars to dispute his cousin's claim on the family farm. Once there, however, Frank also wants answers to questions about his own past: Who really set the fire that burned the family home and killed his parents? Will the stranger, who hangs between life and death, be able to shed light on long-buried secrets?
    As the television blares the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, news of Jim Jones, and endless sitcom reruns, simple answers -- and the promise of the American dream -- seem to recede from Frank's grasp. Brilliant and unsettling, The Resurrectionists is an ironic yet chilling indictment of American culture in the seventies and a compassionate novel about a man struggling to overcome the crimes and burdens of his past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateMar 11, 2003
    ISBN9780743238564
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    The Resurrectionists: A Novel
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    Michael Collins

    Michael Collins was born in Rome in 1930. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, he entered the newly independent Air Force, becoming a fighter pilot and experimental test pilot. He was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in 1963. On his first mission, Gemini 10, he set a world altitude record and became the nation’s third spacewalker. His second flight was as command module pilot of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July 1969. He is retired major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and has received numerous decorations and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Collier Trophy. He is now retired and lives in South Florida. Carrying the Fire is his memoir.

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    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this literary thriller about a man, Frank Cassidy, who returns to his hometown after his uncle who raised him is found dead in his farmhouse and the murder suspect is discovered in a room upstairs.When Frank was five his parents were burned in their home and Frank was the only witness. He repressed his memories and under hypnosis implicated his uncle although he's never been sure about what really happened. Under hypnopsis Frank also mentioned a person by the name of Chester Green.Now, thirty years later, Frank takes his wife, Honey, stepson Robert Lee, and son Ernie to the remote town of his youth to try and claim the farm from his cousin Norman. Frank is confronted with his haunted past when he is accused of writing letters he doesn't remember having written and finds out that his uncle's murder suspect is in a coma and believed to be the mysterious Chester Green.The Resurrectionist is a powerful story about people struggling to make good lives for themselves under very difficult circumstances. All of the characters are greatly flawed except for perhaps the young and innocent Ernie. Honey has fits of rage that she takes out on Robert Lee whose biological father, Ken, is on death row. Robert Lee is angry and sullen and Frank is lost, his grip on reality often tenuous. However, there is significant hope in this novel (hence the title). This suspenseful story is not only a mystery in the whodunnit sense, but also a mystery of how people come together in the most dire of circumstances even when they feel miles apart.
    • 4/5
      I was blown away by this literate thriller. Michael Collins again captures the dark side of small town America. It is a story of homecoming and confronting the past but ultimately hopeful. There are so many thrillers set in the underbelly of large American cities that it is refreshing to read a story ripe with psychological tension and characters whose shared history goes back for generations. When Frank Cassidy was five, his parents died in a house fire in a remote Michigan town. When his Uncle is shot by a mysterious strange thirty years later , Frank returns to the town seeking answers about his past.Highly recommended.