A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked Amer ican families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out Gods will when he assassinates an abortio n provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a w ife and children scarred and embittered by grief.In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectiv es of two...[Read more]