The Book of Mercy

Year of Publication
1996
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
262 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Kathleen Cambor
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
City
New York
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Abstract
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.
Notes
Won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Excellence in Fiction by an American Woman and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize.
Author Biography
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.
Time
1905-88
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