Doc
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780812980004
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $40.00

Doc

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamers of the Day, A Thread of Grace, Children of God, and The Sparrow comes the nationally bestselling historical novel about the Wild West, for Mary Doria Russell's devoted fans and all readers of stylish historical fiction.

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Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780812980004
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell is a former anatomist, has studied six languages, trained as a paleoanthropologist and is the author of scientific papers on subjects as various as bone biology and cannibalism. Her first novel, The Sparrow, won the 1996 James Tiptree Award, the 1998 BSFA Award and the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award and she has also won the Cleveland Arts Council Prize for Literature and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science Fiction. Her second novel, Children of God, is the sequel to The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and their son.

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Dreamers Of The Day
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Praise for Doc

  • "A deeply sympathetic, aggressively researched and wonderfuly entertaining story." -- The Washington Post
  • "Well-written and provocative, Doc is a book that will haunt you."--Historical Novels Review
  • [R]ich, wise and insightful." -- Associated Press
  • "What's weird about Mary Doria Russell is that she's this fabulous...[S]he comes out...with this Western about Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp. It's written right into the history that most of us think we know and all the movies we think we know, but she does a lot of very sophisticated correction of those clichés, the old Western clichés. It's a great story. And Doc Holiday turns out to be a much richer, more fascinating character than I remember." -- Ron Charles, critic for The Washington Post's Book World
  • [E]xcellently researched and wonderfully written." -- The Christian Science Monitor