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The Gravedigger’s Daughter

The Gravedigger’s Daughter

Name: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780007258451

Joyce Carol Oates

06/08/2007
Fourth Estate Ltd

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Couverture de The Gravedigger’s Daughter par Joyce Carol Oates

Résumé

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 the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the town's prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss, and in an attempt to put her past behind her, young Rebecca Schwart moves on, across America and through a series of listless marriages, in search of somewhere, and someone, to whom she can belong.