The gravedigger's daughter : a novel
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Published
New York : Ecco, c2007.
Format
Books
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0061236829, 9780061236822
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 30
Status
Sandown Public Library
FIC OAT
1 available
FIC OAT
1 available
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Published
New York : Ecco, c2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0061236829, 9780061236822
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6, 30 Points
Level 6, 30 Points
Notes
Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Oates, J. C. (2007). The gravedigger's daughter: a novel . Ecco.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. 2007. The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel. Ecco.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel Ecco, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol. The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel Ecco, 2007.
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