A Book of American Martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates
A Book of American Martyrs, Joyce Carol Oates
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A Book of American Martyrs
A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Neil Hellegers, Tavia Gilbert, Kirsten Potter, Donna Postel, David Colacci

Unabridged: 24 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/07/2017

Synopsis

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society.  A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 07, 2017

736 pages in 4 days, wow. 500 of them were great, too. But then, well, not so great. Joyce Carol Oates falls into a trap which she carefully dug herself. The story is about the shotgun murder of an abortionist doctor by an evangelical Christian guy. There have been eleven such murders in the USA betw......more

Goodreads review by Ron on February 07, 2017

Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, “A Book of American Martyrs,” arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood. As the Republican Congress plots to cripple Planned Parenthood and the right to choose hinges on one vacant Supreme Court seat, “American Martyrs” probes all the wounds of our abortion debat......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on November 06, 2016

I'll be honest: in all my years of selling books, I had never read anything by Joyce Carol Oates. As I sit here in my sublime book-hangover, I can't believe I waited this long to find my way to reading what Oates has given to the literary world. I'm not sure I can write a review worthy enough to exp......more

Goodreads review by jocelyn • coolgalreading on March 14, 2025

oh my god i just read this 700+ page book in under 48 hours. JCO the master that u are......more

Goodreads review by charlie on August 26, 2024

est-ce que c'était beaucoup trop long ? bien sûr. est-ce que le tiers du roman à peu près aurait pu être coupé avec pour conséquence d'améliorer le texte de façon drastique et radicale ? évidemment. est-ce que je m'en fous ? aussi ! on ne va pas se mentir, les cent pages du milieu sur les états d'âm......more

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