The Book of Mercy is the debut novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.[1]

The Book of Mercy
First edition
AuthorKathleen Cambor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1996
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages261 pp
ISBN0-374-11550-8
OCLC33666111
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3553.A4277 B66 1996
Followed byIn Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden 

Narrated in alternate chapters by Edmund Mueller, an 83-year-old retired Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania firefighter, and his daughter, Anne, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and single mother, the novel weaves a family saga of two Catholic German-Americans.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Kathleen Cambor, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008
  2. ^ The Book of Mercy, Publishers Weekly, 1996