. . . . . . . . . . "Occult fiction" . . "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." . . . . . . "The book of mercy" . "The book of mercy : [a novel]" . . "Psychological fiction" . "Isolated from his children and tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, a retired fireman becomes so fascinated with the lost art of alchemy and its promise of immortality that he is institutionalized." . "The book of mercy"@en . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en .