Name: A Book of American Martyrs
Price: 15.21 GBP
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780008221713

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Harper Collins

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Synopsis "A Book of American Martyrs"

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.

Gus Voorhees is a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.

When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened...