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The Book of Mercy

Kathleen Cambor

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#3233 of 8,085 books · #1586 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1997).

Isolated from his children and tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, a retired fireman becomes so fascinated with the lost art of alchemy and its promise of immortality that he is institutionalized.

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Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN-13
9780156005197
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Alchemy and obsessionFamily estrangementGrief and memory

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