The book of mercy /
Cambor, Kathleen.
The book of mercy / [electronic resource] Kathleen Cambor. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996. - 261 p. ; 23 cm.
A mentally ill man is treated by his psychiatrist daughter. In the process emerges the story of the Mueller family of Pittsburgh, a fireman who marries a flamboyant dancer. The wife abandons the family, the son becomes a priest, the daughter a doctor, while the father loses himself in alchemy, searching for the elixir of life.
0374115508 9780374115500
95047729
Middle-aged men--Fiction.
Alchemists--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Occult fiction.
PS3553.A4277 / B66 1996
813/.54
The book of mercy / [electronic resource] Kathleen Cambor. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996. - 261 p. ; 23 cm.
A mentally ill man is treated by his psychiatrist daughter. In the process emerges the story of the Mueller family of Pittsburgh, a fireman who marries a flamboyant dancer. The wife abandons the family, the son becomes a priest, the daughter a doctor, while the father loses himself in alchemy, searching for the elixir of life.
0374115508 9780374115500
95047729
Middle-aged men--Fiction.
Alchemists--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Occult fiction.
PS3553.A4277 / B66 1996
813/.54