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 unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-inventio...

By Joyce Carol Oates
Hardcover: 600 pages
Publisher: Ecco Press; First Edition edition (2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007258453
ISBN-13: 978-0007258451
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 8306194
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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