The Book of Mercy

For the Leonard Cohen poetry book, see Book of Mercy.
The Book of Mercy
First edition
AuthorKathleen Cambor
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages261 pp
ISBN0-374-11550-8
OCLC33666111
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3553.A4277 B66 1996

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]

References

  1. ^ Kathleen Cambor, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008
  2. ^ The Book of Mercy, Publishers Weekly, 1996


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