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The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ecco. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0061236829 . Signed by Oates to publisher Otto Penzler, "For Otto/With much love/Joyce/1 June 2007." Modest tanning to the page edges. The dust jacket has a trace of rubbing to the head of the spine. An historical novel about a woman's changing identity. ; 582 pages; Signed by Author .
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
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26484
- Title
- The Gravedigger's Daughter
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0061236829, New York (State) Prejudices Psychological fiction Roman Romans, nouvelles, , etc USA, Signed, FIRST Edition, 21st century American fiction Bildungsromans Englisch Families Familles , Fathers and daughters Fiction Identity Immigrants
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- Signed Fiction;
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Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
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Bungalow Books, ABAA
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Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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