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A book of American martyrs / Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (author.).

Summary:

"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 an ardent 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, insightful 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."-- Provided by the publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062643049 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 736 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Ecco, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"a novel"--Front cover.

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Subject: Assassination > Fiction.
Evangelicalism > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Physicians > Crimes against > Fiction.
Pro-choice movement > Fiction.
Pro-life movement > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Ohio > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library FIC OAT (Text) 35130000036339 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Soldier Of God: Luther Amos Dunphy: November 2, 1999
Muskegee Falls, Ohio
3(6)
Turns
9(10)
The Miracle of the Little Hand
19(2)
Defending the Defenseless
21(28)
The Lost Daughter
49(16)
Sin
65(12)
The Calling
77(20)
A Soldier of Christ
97(14)
The Life And Death Of Gus Voorhees: An Archive
Abortionist's Daughter
111(2)
Memory, Undated
113(2)
Memory, Undated: Flying Glass
115(2)
"Rot in Hell"
117(2)
Interview(s)
119(4)
Revenge
123(2)
"Evil"---"Heaven"
125(4)
Special Surgery
129(4)
"Would Daddy Hurt Me?"
133(2)
"Adopted"
135(6)
The White Box
141(4)
"So Clumsy"
145(2)
"A Baby Killer Lives in Your Neighborhood"
147(2)
Application, University of Michigan School of Arts and Sciences
149(6)
"False Alarm": June 1997
155(30)
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished": A Personal Testimony, August 2006
185(6)
Jigsaw
191(8)
"Like a Candle Blown Out"
199(16)
The Archivist Interviewed
215(2)
Law of Exponents
217(14)
"Remains"
231(6)
Rejoice!
237(6)
Children of the Deceased
243(8)
Voice Mail
251(6)
"New Idea"
257(2)
Laughter
259(2)
The People of the State of Ohio v. Luther Amos Dunphy: December 2000
261(38)
"Mistrial": Widow of the Deceased
299(2)
"Mistrial": Children of the Deceased
301(10)
"Just for You"
311(6)
"No More"
317(4)
The Ant
321(4)
The Hammer: December 18, 2000-March 4, 2006
Broome County Courthouse: December 18, 2000
325(6)
"This Day You Shall Be With Me in Paradise"
331(6)
The Christian Girl
337(22)
Trial
359(10)
The Great Tribulation: September 2001
369(12)
Verdict
381(2)
Sentence
383(2)
Bad News
385(2)
Mud Time
387(14)
The Stay
401(6)
Lethal
407(4)
Unclean
411(14)
Holy Innocents
425(14)
Death Warrant
439(32)
The Embrace: March 2006-March 2010
Autoimmune
471(18)
Alone
489(4)
Aftershock
493(10)
Hatefuge
503(2)
"Emptiness": January 2007
505(42)
"Unwanted"---"Wanted"
547(6)
"Hammer of Jesus": March 2008---February 2009
553(28)
"Jesus Is Lord"
581(34)
The Consolation Of Grief: September 2011-February 2012
"True Subject"
615(2)
Muskegee Falls, Ohio: September 2011
617(34)
Katechay Island: October 2011
651(16)
Fight Night, Cincinnati: November 2011
667(32)
Family
699(14)
The Consolation of Grief: February 2012
713

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