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// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did "The Book of Mercy" say to the shelf? "You've got a lot to forgive.

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The Book of Mercy
First edition
AuthorKathleen Cambor
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages261 pp
ISBN0-374-11550-8
OCLC33666111
Dewey Decimal813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3553.A4277 B66 1996

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

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

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