TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - German Americans
KW - senior citizens
KW - psychiatrists
KW - Little Sisters of the Poor
KW - alchemy
KW - priests
KW - firefighters
AU - Kathleen Cambor
AB - Follows a German American family that consists of Edmund, a firefighter obsessed with alchemy, and his two adult children: one a priest, the other a psychiatrist. Edmund is tormented by memories of his wife, Fanny, a flamboyant dancer, who abandoned her husband and kids and Pittsburgh.
C1 - 1905-88
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Mexican War Streets; Allegheny Center; National Aviary; Lawrenceville; Downtown; McKeesport
C4 - Literary; Women’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American Woman and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize.
N2 - Follows a German American family that consists of Edmund, a firefighter obsessed with alchemy, and his two adult children: one a priest, the other a psychiatrist. Edmund is tormented by memories of his wife, Fanny, a flamboyant dancer, who abandoned her husband and kids and Pittsburgh.
PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
PP - New York
PY - 1996
RN - Kathleen Cambor (1947— ) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, earning a degree in nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Houston, where for many years she's taught in the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
EP - 262 p.
TI - The Book of Mercy
ER -