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Jan 1, 2007 · 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 ...
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The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide. [1] Oates explained that she decided to write about her family only ...
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Apr 1, 2008 · “The Gravedigger’s Daughter is Joyce Carol Oates at her very best: mesmerizing, intense and unique in her vision and power.” — The New Yorker “Oates’s characters are vivid and mulit-dimensional, and the book’s surprise ending is moving and hopeful. This is a saga worth savoring.” 4 out of 4 stars — People
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Apr 1, 2008 · The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel (P.S.) Paperback – April 1, 2008. 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 ...
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Jun 17, 2007 · Rebecca is the daughter of Jacob and Anna Schwart, German-Jewish refugees from Hitler. ... Perhaps conscious of her plot’s mythic weight — the European gravedigger’s daughter reborn in ...
May 29, 2007 · The Gravedigger's Daughter Hardcover – Deckle Edge, May 29, 2007. 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.
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Jun 9, 2020 · Rebecca, the daughter of a German high school teacher who was forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrating to upstate New York, begins a life-changing pilgrimage throughout America in the wake of a prejudice-motivated tragedy Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2007 Accelerated Reader AR UG 6
