by Joyce Carol Oates · Harper Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008221683
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«A Book of American Martyrs» is the contemporary fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Harper Collins in hardcover (736 pages, in English).
A novel about two Ohio families united by a murder: Luther Dunphy, a convinced evangelical, kills Augustus Voorhees, the doctor who performed abortions in his town. The grief of the Voorhees and the Dunphys, and the crossing of their daughters Naomi and Dawn, lead to a story about religious extremism, abortion, gun violence and capital punishment.
«A Book of American Martyrs» was recognized with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2017 in the Mystery/Thriller category.
This novel is for readers of contemporary and literary fiction who seek stories about social, religious and political conflicts.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
