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<p>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&#8212;but Very American&#8212;triumph. You Are Born Here, They Will Not Hurt You&#8212;so The Gravedigger Has Predicted For His Daughter, Which Will Turn Out To Be True. </p> <p> In <i>the Gravedigger's Daughter</i>, 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 <i>the Falls</i>, <i>blonde</i>, And <i>we Were The Mulvaneys</i>.</p><h3>the Washington Post - Brian Hall</h3><p>this Is Neither A Depressing Story Nor An Uplifting One. Oates Succeeds Here, As She Often Does, In Making Su

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Author

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061236839

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.52 / 5 (6,895 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13