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The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

Hardcover | Pages: 582 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 9379 Users | 1114 Reviews

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Title	:	The Gravedigger's Daughter
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages	:	Pages: 582 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2007 by Ecco (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. Novels

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From one of the greatest literary forces of our time, an intensely realized, masterful epic of a young woman's struggle for identity and survival in post - World War II America.

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.

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Original Title:	The Gravedigger's Daughter
ISBN:	0061236829 (ISBN13: 9780061236822)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rebecca Tignor, Jacob Schwart, Niles Tignor, Hazel Jones
Literary Awards:	Macavity Award Nominee for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2008), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2007)

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The first half of this novel was so angry, practically dripping with Jacob Schwart's spittle-rage and Tignor's controlling misogyny! The unpleasant feeling of reading about all this anger, together with the deft anxiety-inducing plot, made me read fast, fast, fast, barely skimming some sections. It is a tribute to the author's ability that I kept reading at all. A less well-written book I certainly would've put down. But Rebecca's unique survival story, one in which she crafts a new identity to

So, I read some of the reviews prior to listening to this story and was almost tempted to bypass this novel. However, contrary to what I read by others, I had a different take on this story considering this story is typically not in the genere that I tend to read or listen.The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates is a well-written story of Rebecca Swartz, the central character who becomes a young married woman in her mid-twenties. The story captures her youth as a child, along with her

When I reached for my first book by Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter, I must admit I was expecting a somewhat sugar-coated and sweetened novel about a poor little girl, daughter of refugees from pre-war Germany, who grows up being mocked and bullied by her peers. I was somewhat expecting a novel about pity and unfair treatment. Probably it was the book cover that added a lot in forming this wrong expectation of mine. And while in a sense, I did find pity and drama in this book, they

Raw and gritty and saucy and rich. And tremulous. And reflective. And melancholy. The prose of life, of American life. Of a woman, told by a woman. After this book I want to read everything Joyce Carol Oates has ever written.

What a letdown. I LOVE JCO and this is one of her more famous books. However, I was just NOT into this. My big issue with it is that when I would get into it, it would shift to another time period in this family's history. I lost interest by the second time Oates did this to a major scale. I never like it when I come out of a book not liking it (no matter what the book is). It PAINS me to be disappointed by a book. However, I want to be honest and not give 4 and 5 stars to everything. Didn't

Oates' style is the most beautiful I've yet encountered, non-sophisticated, but appealing at the same time. It's not plain, but not overabundant in complicated words either. The descriptions aren't boring, the story goes smoothly and the characters are 3D. Intrigued to read other Oates' books.

Joyce Carol Oates is probably our most prolific writer. I've read so many of her novels, and she always gets me in her spell. She often writes of troubled young women who become victims to brutish men because of making bad choices and having low self-esteem. She has killer lines, which she often uses as repetitive phrases or tropes effectively throughout the book. She can do so much in one line, for example:"Mrs. Chester GallagherEach time she signed her new name it seemed to her that her