The Gravedigger's Daughter
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...
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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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061236822 (0061236829)
Publish date: May 29th 2007
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 582
Edition language: English
Just such a downer... maybe some other time.
always like Joyce Carol Oates....Ok. having read it I will give it 3 stars. Even in the author's question and answer session at the end, she says likes the beginning parts more, as I did. Her relationship with her family fills up the majority of the book. Then she gets into an abusive relationship. ...
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