Mercy
by Alissa York
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Pub Date Feb 22 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Open Road Media | Delphinium Books
Description
A gifted
young Canadian writer makes her debut in the United States with a dark
and spell-binding tale of erotic and pang-ridden legacy of forbidden
love
A handsome priest named August
Day arrives in the well-ordered town of Mercy, Manitoba, to take over
the church of St. Mary Immaculate. In the first days of his tenure he
falls in love with the young bride of the town butcher. Their mutual
obsession grows to the point that its aftermath leaves scars on the town
decades and generations after their love affair is over.
Alissa York has won several of Canada’s leading literary prizes for emerging young writers. Her latest novel, Effigy,
about the Mountain Meadows massacre, in the Utah Territory in September
1857, was recently published. She lives with her husband in Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
Advance Praise
“Rewarding . . . a blinding flash of light, a flare gun in a darkening universe of lost souls.” —The Globe and Mail
“A
debut that’s pure magic . . . [Mercy] is stunning in its emotive power
and emotional resonance. York’s prose is taut and finely honed; her
themes and the characters and settings that propel them are far-reaching
and profound. It’s sensual, full of yearning and longing for the heat
of love.” —The Hamilton Spectator
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781453213209 |
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