A book of American martyrs
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-2017
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Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and 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, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other.
Main title:
A book of American martyrs / Joyce Carol Oates.
Author:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2017.
Collation:
736 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780008221676 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1163322