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Type
Novel
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ISBN
9780061236839
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061236837
ISBN-13
9780061236839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61171392

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gravedigger's Daughter : a Novel
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Jewish
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
0.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Reviews
"Joyce Carol Oates is a major one-woman industry. Constantly exploring new aspects of American life, Joyce Carol Oates has restlessly evolved as an artist." -- New York Review of Books "Joyce Carol Oates' uncompromising prose illuminates the stark landscape of our times" -- Chicago Tribune "The daughter of a Holocaust survivor (the gravedigger of the title) who commits an incredible murder, Oates's heroine endures enough violence to fill a slasher movie. But she is able to reinvent herself as a peppy salesclerk with a jazz-musician lover and become 'a living, breathing, complex presence on the page,' our reviewer, Lee Siegel, wrote. Oates is sometimes compared to Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, Siegel continued, 'but in the way her novels take off at the moment when her heroines break free, Oates is sometimes more like Carrie herself.'" -- New York Times "The Gravedigger's Daughter is Joyce Carol Oates at her very best: mesmerizing, intense and unique in her vision and power." -- The New Yorker "Oates's characters are vivid and mulit-dimensional, and the book's surprise ending is moving and hopeful. This is a saga worth savoring." 4 out of 4 stars -- People "For many novelists, quantity is damaging to quality, but Oates's power springs directly from her prodigality. Her genius - the only word for the alarming thing that so evidently possesses her - happens to be a giant. And the reader's intimation that this huge-handed, league-striding, voracious monster is somehow speaking, whispering, howling through her is what gives to her writing the illusion that it's all real...Oates succeeds here, as she often does, in making such judgements feel simple-minded. What it all seems is true and therefore moving and somewhat terrible, but in an exhilarating way. Every aspect of the ungainly plot feels right, including its ungainliness." -- Washington Post Book World, "Joyce Carol Oates' uncompromising prose illuminates the stark landscape of our times" - Chicago Tribune "The Gravedigger's Daughter is Joyce Carol Oates at her very best: mesmerizing, intense and unique in her vision and power." - The New Yorker "Oates is our finest novelistic tracker . . . Everything in this book depends on Oates' ability to bring a woman before the reader who is deeply veiled . . . and she does it with epic panache." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Oates is supremely atmospheric, erotic, and suspenseful in this virtuoso novel of identity, power, and moral reckoning." - Booklist "Joyce Carol Oates is a major one-woman industry. Constantly exploring new aspects of American life, Joyce Carol Oates has restlessly evolved as an artist." - New York Review of Books "The daughter of a Holocaust survivor (the gravedigger of the title) who commits an incredible murder, Oates's heroine endures enough violence to fill a slasher movie. But she is able to reinvent herself as a peppy salesclerk with a jazz-musician lover and become 'a living, breathing, complex presence on the page,' our reviewer, Lee Siegel, wrote. Oates is sometimes compared to Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, Siegel continued, 'but in the way her novels take off at the moment when her heroines break free, Oates is sometimes more like Carrie herself.'" - New York Times "Hailed by many as her masterpiece, this latest novel from the prolific writer demonstrates again why she's such a literary success..." - Body & Soul "Oates writes evocatively about the explosive combination of regret and resentment... a writer of furious gifts..." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "There is a lot to respect and admire about Joyce Carol Oates' fiction. Foremost among her protean talents is the forceful imagination that has leapt out so often and illuminated all manner of situations and characters... Each time you open one of her novels -- "The Gravedigger's Daughter" is her 36th -- you cannot help being struck by the sense that she is giving it her all...Perhaps Oates' greatest achievement here is to make this rough specimen of womankind into a truly attractive character who receives the reader's sympathy in the broadest sense of that term... an uncommonly satisfying novel." - Los Angeles Times "Oates writes evocatively about the explosive combination of regret and resentment... a writer of furious gifts..." - St. Petersburg Times "Joyce Carol Oates's 36th novel ranks among her most accomplished, atmospheric and personal... rich emotional and psychological insights...There's much here to be moved and mesmerized by, not least Oates's linguistic verve." - Bloomberg News "Oates' vivid descriptions fill the senses... Strongest is Oates' compassionate, disturbing portrayal of life in the troubled war years, when immigrants were seen as the enemy by some of their reluctant new countrymen, and of the decades that followed, when assimilation came at a soul-shattering cost." - Indianapolis Star "...a writer of furious gifts..." - New Jersey Star Ledger "Oates' vivid descriptions fill the senses...what is strong is Oates' compassionate, disturbing portrayal of life in the troubled war years..." - USA Today "With The Gravedigger's Daughter, Oates has created an intense portrait of a woman that no one but she could write. Drawing on her long-standing interests in violence, women's roles, recent American history and the influence of money and education -or lack of them - on the shape of a person's life, Oates has worked all of her major themes into a compelling, fictional life story." - Rocky Mountain News
Synopsis
In this "New York Times" bestseller, 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., Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace--on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly "American" triumph.

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