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The gravedigger's daughter, a novel, Joyce Carol Oates

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The gravedigger's daughter, a novel, Joyce Carol Oates

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The gravedigger's daughter

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joyce Carol Oates

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

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