{"first_publish_date": "2001", "title": "The keepers of truth", "covers": [471962], "subject_places": ["Middle West"], "lc_classifications": ["PR6053.O4263 K44 2001"], "key": "/works/OL2143308W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL268511A"}}], "dewey_number": ["823/.914"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Murder", "Journalists", "Plant shutdowns", "Fiction", "City and town life", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Journalists, fiction", "Middle west, fiction"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/books/rust-belt-blues.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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.\n\nFor 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.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "genres": ["/tags/OL175T"], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T23:00:06.346029"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-31T16:32:37.436584"}}