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A Book of American Martyrs
Joyce Carol Oates
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Description for A Book of American Martyrs
Hardcover. Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 270.
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and ... Read more
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Signed by the author
;Yes
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008221676
SKU
9780008221676
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Ref
99-5
About Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book ... Read more
Reviews for A Book of American Martyrs
`Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists' Observer `The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail `Icily subtle ... at its spine-tingling best when staring into the dark, a sliver away from ... Read more