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The Gravedigger's Daughter

The Gravedigger's Daughter

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The Gravedigger's Daughter: First Edition w/Publisher's tipped in signature

by Joyce Carol Oates

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ISBN 10
0061236829
ISBN 13
9780061236822
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2007 Ecco trade hardcover format. Specially bound edition by the publisher with tipped in signature page by the author. "FIRST EDITION" & full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked. Dj is not price clipped($26.95). Two small enclosed rips on the lower spine extremity of the dj, else dj is clean, no color discoleration & looks very good in brodart protective sleeve. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Binding firm & straight. Boards clean & square.

Synopsis

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. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet—but very "American"—triumph. "You are born here, they will not hurt you"—so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.In The Gravedigger's Daughter, 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 to set beside such predecessors as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Format/Binding
Trade hardcover w/dj
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0061236829
ISBN 13
9780061236822
Publisher
Ecco
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
May 29, 2007

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