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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: Ecco, New York, 2007. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition/first printing in very good condition with bumped tip on front cover and slight bumps to spine ends. Priced (26.95) dust jacket is very good.Book is unmarked and unread in pristine internal condition, with the authors signature on the title page dated 6/7/07. Tipped in is a picture of Joyce Carol Oates signing the book. This fine gripping story is from one of the greatest literary forces of our time, an intensely realized, masterful epic of a young woman's struggle for identity and survival in post- world war II in America. In Gravediggers Daughter, Oates had created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testament to the resilience of the individual to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We were the Mulvanies. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001670
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13113
- Title
- The Gravedigger's Daughter
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Format/Binding
- Bound in white cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- May 29, 2007
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition/ First Printing
- Size
- 8vo
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