EAN: 9780061763304

MERCY STREET - JENNIFER HAIGH GEBUNDEN

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post  the New Yorker  and
the Boston Globe Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention.
Her work is gripping  real  and totally immersive  akin to that of writers as different as
Richard Price  Richard Ford  and Richard Russo.-Janet Maslin  New York Times The highly praised
extraordinary (New York Times Book Review) novel about the disparate lives that intersect at a
women's clinic in Boston  by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh For almost a
decade  Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street  a clinic in the heart of the city. The
work is consuming  the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients  Mercy Street
offers more than health care  for many  it is a second chance. But outside the clinic  the
reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small  determined group of
anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify  fear
creeps into Claudia's days  a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy  an
affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy's  she encounters a
random assortment of customers  including Anthony  a lost soul who spends most of his life
online  chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11-the screenname of Victor Prine  an
anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all for
his beliefs. Mercy Street is a novel for right now  a story of the polarized American present.
Jennifer Haigh  an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters' humanity
(New York Times)  has written a groundbreaking novel  a fearless examination of one of the most
divisive issues of our time.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780061763304

Produktinformationen zur 9780061763304