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Lost Souls begins with the discovery of the body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, concealed in a pile of autumn leaves. It looks as if the child might have been the victim of a hit and run. It's Halloween. The streets had been full of children. But how did a three-year oldcome to be hiding there alone in the dark, dressed only in her flimsy costume. And why were the child's feet bare?

A ghastly crime, a bungled cover-up, several guilty secrets, innocence defiled, a community isolated, a lowering landscape across which a host of dysfunctional characters stalk, a twisting plot and Michael Collins's uniquely stylish and blackly humorous prose make this latest novel a gripping read. As always the landscape and people are vividly evoked. This novel is full of unforgettable images from its haunting and chillingly beautiful beginning to its brilliant denouement.

About the Author :
Michael Collins was born in Limerick in 1964. He was educated in Ireland and America and currently lives in Seattle. He is the author of the Booker-nominated Keepers of Truth, The Resurrectionists, and several collections of short stories.

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It is, above all, American in syntax and rhythm and for an outsider like Collins, albeit one who has lived there for a long time, that is a great achievement... His mastery of style, moment and place, gives it a curious vitality which is thoroughly compelling. - OBSERVER - JAY RAYNER

On occasion, his writing blends the commonplace and the uncanny in a manner reminiscent of the films of David Lynch. The best thing about Lost Souls, however, is the tortured voice of its narrator. - SUNDAY TIMES - STEPHEN AMIDON

The real interest of the book lies... in its dissection of a run-down society.... The novel reads like a report from the front line. It is satisfyingly truthful. Its plain bleak matter-of-fact tone is curiously invigorating. One grows weary after all of those fanciful novelist with a talent for playful invention. It's good to come on one who tells you how it is. Collins is such a writer. - THE SCOTSMAN - ALLAN MASSIE,

The Limerick-born Collins has been described as "the thinking man's John Grisham", but that is less than just. He has a strength and emotional charge that remind you of Patricia Highsmith at her finest. - DAILY MAIL

What elevates this work beyond the workaday and humdrum thriller is the author's self-conscious knowingness.... Collins brilliantly deploys a cold, precise prose in his descriptions of the theatricalities and absurdities of


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297645658
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Weight: 475 gr
  • ISBN-10: 029764565X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 149 mm


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