The Gravedigger's Daughter

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 582 pages; Book Tight, Dust Jacket shows little wear of usage Text is clean no markings seen Remainder mark; BX252

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In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet--but very American--triumph. You are born here, they will not hurt you--so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.

In The Gravedigger's Daughter, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys.

Product Info

ISBN: 0061236829

ISBN-13: 9780061236822

Publisher: Ecco

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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