The gravedigger's daughter

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Title:

Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

ISBN:

9780061236839

9780007258468

Personal Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Publication Information:

London : HarperPerennial, 2008.

Physical Description:

582, 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2007.

Abstract:

Rebecca, the daughter of a German high school teacher who was forced to work as a gravedigger after immigrating to upstate New York, begins a life-changing pilgrimage throughout America in the wake of a prejudice-motivated tragedy.

Subject Term:

Refugees -- Germany -- Fiction.

Jews, German -- United States -- Fiction.

Families -- New York (State) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (State) -- Fiction.

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Summary

Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace--on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly "American" triumph.