A book of American martyrs /
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
A book of American martyrs / Joyce Carol Oates. - London : 4th Estate, 2017. - 736 pages ; 24 cm - 82A-3 (NLA) .
In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who believes he is carrying out God's will when he assassinates Augustus Voorhees, an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children who are scarred and embittered by grief.
9780008221676 (hardcover) 9780008221683
Assassination--Fiction
Murder--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Pro-life movement--Fiction
Pro-choice movement--Fiction
Physicians--Crimes against--Fiction
Trials (Murder)--Fiction
Evangelicalism--Fiction
Evangelicalism--Fiction
Assassination--Fiction
Ohio--Fiction
82A-3 (NLA)
A book of American martyrs / Joyce Carol Oates. - London : 4th Estate, 2017. - 736 pages ; 24 cm - 82A-3 (NLA) .
In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who believes he is carrying out God's will when he assassinates Augustus Voorhees, an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children who are scarred and embittered by grief.
9780008221676 (hardcover) 9780008221683
Assassination--Fiction
Murder--Fiction
Grief--Fiction
Pro-life movement--Fiction
Pro-choice movement--Fiction
Physicians--Crimes against--Fiction
Trials (Murder)--Fiction
Evangelicalism--Fiction
Evangelicalism--Fiction
Assassination--Fiction
Ohio--Fiction
82A-3 (NLA)