The Gravedigger's Daughter A Novel
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061236837
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236839
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper Perennial. Very Good. 2008. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 624 pages. P.S.. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the fathera former high school teacheris 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 peaceon the road to a bittersweet and distinctly "American" triumph. .
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- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 605652
- Title
- The Gravedigger's Daughter A Novel
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0061236837
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236839
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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