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The Gravedigger´s Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
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Description for The Gravedigger´s Daughter
Paperback. From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
From the author of `Blonde', `The Falls' and `We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. `The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as ... Read more
From the author of `Blonde', `The Falls' and `We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. `The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007258468
SKU
KJE0003514
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including `We Were the Mulvaneys', which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and `Blonde', which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind ... Read more
Reviews for The Gravedigger´s Daughter
'A distinctive addition to her extraordinary cannon, at once sinuous and jarring, stark and subtle - the literary equivalent of a warm slap in the face.' The Observer 'Oates's prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope, despair, love and hatred.' The Guardian ... Read more