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Amazon.com Review A Letter from Author Mary Doria Russell For the past three years, when people asked what my next novel is about, I've only had to say four words. “It's about Doc Holliday.” You mention Doc Holliday to guys especially and they just light up . “Oh, man! I love Doc!” they say, and they often mention Val Kilmer's portrayal in the movie Tombstone . I love that movie, too, but when I write characters, I'm really writing about whom and what they love. The shining silver wire that runs through Doc is John Henry Holliday's love for his mother. Alice Holliday was 22 when her son was born near Atlanta in the summer of 1851. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, “a sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents' hearts.” I'm sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Even today, when you know clefts can be repaired, they're a shock. In 1851, such children commonly died within weeks, but Alice kept her boy alive, waking every hour to feed him with an eyedropper, day and night, for eight long weeks. Think about that exhausted young woman and the baby with the

Who reads Doc : A Novel?

Author

Mary Doria Russell

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812980004

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Western, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (9,966 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13