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Gravedigger's Daughter : A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061236837
ISBN-139780061236839
eBay Product ID (ePID)61171392
Product Key Features
Book TitleGravedigger's Daughter : a Novel
Number of Pages624 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicPsychological, General, Jewish
GenreFiction
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
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
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SynopsisIn 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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