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In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town, while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief.
In her moving, keenly observed portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely--but with great empathy--confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society.
A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
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- Title A Book of American Martyrs
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition LGR
- Pages 1136
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Large Print
- Date 2017-02
- Large Print Yes
- ISBN 9780062644428 / 0062644424
- Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 2 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 5.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Assassination, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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