The Book of Mercy
Author | Kathleen Cambor |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 1996 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 261 pp |
ISBN | 0-374-11550-8 |
OCLC | 33666111 |
813/.54 20 | |
LC Class | PS3553.A4277 B66 1996 |
Followed by | In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden |
The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.[1]
Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, an 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single mother, the novel weaves a family saga of two Catholic German-Americans.[2]
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Categories:
- 1996 American novels
- Novels set in Pittsburgh
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works
- 1996 debut novels
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux books
- 1990s novel stubs