The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates (English) Paperback Boo

Description: The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates In this "New York Times" bestseller, 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 familys own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravediggers 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. Author Biography Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Review "Joyce Carol Oates is a major one-woman industry. Constantly exploring new aspects of American life, Joyce Carol Oates has restlessly evolved as an artist." -- New York Review of Books"Joyce Carol Oates uncompromising prose illuminates the stark landscape of our times" -- Chicago Tribune"The daughter of a Holocaust survivor (the gravedigger of the title) who commits an incredible murder, Oatess heroine endures enough violence to fill a slasher movie. But she is able to reinvent herself as a peppy salesclerk with a jazz-musician lover and become a living, breathing, complex presence on the page, our reviewer, Lee Siegel, wrote. Oates is sometimes compared to Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, Siegel continued, but in the way her novels take off at the moment when her heroines break free, Oates is sometimes more like Carrie herself." -- New York Times"The Gravediggers Daughter is Joyce Carol Oates at her very best: mesmerizing, intense and unique in her vision and power." -- The New Yorker"Oatess characters are vivid and mulit-dimensional, and the books surprise ending is moving and hopeful. This is a saga worth savoring." 4 out of 4 stars -- People"For many novelists, quantity is damaging to quality, but Oatess power springs directly from her prodigality. Her genius - the only word for the alarming thing that so evidently possesses her - happens to be a giant. And the readers intimation that this huge-handed, league-striding, voracious monster is somehow speaking, whispering, howling through her is what gives to her writing the illusion that its all real...Oates succeeds here, as she often does, in making such judgements feel simple-minded. What it all seems is true and therefore moving and somewhat terrible, but in an exhilarating way. Every aspect of the ungainly plot feels right, including its ungainliness." -- Washington Post Book World Long Description 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 familys own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravediggers 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. Details ISBN0061236837 Author Joyce Carol Oates Short Title GRAVEDIGGERS DAUGHTER Series P.S. (Paperback) Language English ISBN-10 0061236837 ISBN-13 9780061236839 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 813.54 Residence Princeton, NJ, US Birth 1938 Subtitle A Novel DOI 10.1604/9780061236839 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2013-12-13 NZ Release Date 2013-12-13 UK Release Date 2013-12-13 Pages 624 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Audience General Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-12-13 US Release Date 2013-12-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168909562;

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