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The Gravedigger's Daughter - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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The Gravedigger's Daughter - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Oates, Joyce Carol

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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
ISBN 10
0061236829
ISBN 13
9780061236822
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New York: ECCO. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0061236829 . A Very Good+ first edition/first printing that has rubbing to the edges of the mildly soiled boards, housed in a like dust-jacket that is also edgeworn and has some soiling; Joyce Carol Oates' The Gravedigger's Daughter tells the story of a woman, Addie, who is haunted by her father's death. Addie returns to her hometown after years of being away to find that her father's death has left a lasting impression on the townspeople. The Gravedigger's Daughter is a gripping novel that explores the relationships between fathers and daughters, and the deep scars that can be left behind.; 8vo; 582 pages; MR .

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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.

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Title
The Gravedigger's Daughter - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0061236829
ISBN 13
9780061236822
Publisher
ECCO
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2007

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