Title: Apostles of light
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1973
Description: The elderly couple in this fine novel, a retired schoolteacher and the doctor with whom she has had a lifelong, tender love affair, find that, almost by accident, they have forfeited control of their own lives. Trapped in a nursing home, they are the victims of the biblical "apostles of light," the deceitful do-gooders who profess righteousness. In subtle, elegant prose Ellen Douglas recounts a gripping story of their brave attempt to free themselves from a dreadful plight. They must confront both their corrupt and evil custodians and their well-meaning younger relatives who are tempted by greed, ambition, cowardice, and indifference.
Subjects: Fiction, Nursing home patients, Nursing homes, Older people, Fiction, medical, Fiction, family life, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Nursing home residents, Families
Places: Southern States