Books The Gravedigger's Daughter Download Online Free

The Gravedigger's Daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

Hardcover | Pages: 582 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 9379 Users | 1114 Reviews

Point Books Conducive To The Gravedigger's Daughter

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)

Narrative To Books The Gravedigger's Daughter

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.

Itemize Appertaining To Books The Gravedigger's Daughter

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

Rating Appertaining To Books The Gravedigger's Daughter

Ratings: 3.55 From 9379 Users | 1114 Reviews

Criticize Appertaining To Books The Gravedigger's Daughter

I've read her short stories but this is my first novel. She can surely write. I love her style and while the story is quite graphic in its violence and abuse, it was not gratuitous, but necessary, handled well. It was a story of survival, escape. One family escapes the holocaust only to confront isolation and prejudice in America, eventually leading a father to insanity and self-destruction. The journey of the surviving daughter reveals another from of persecution--the persecution of women/ a

If there were six or seven stars to give them to this book, I would think that not enough! It has more than earned a place on my Favorites shelf. Now my favorite Oates novel out of the 20 or so (I lost count) of her books Ive read. And what is it about? A Graveddiggers Daughter? Yes. But also memory, perspective, and history intersecting, specifically during and especially in the decades following World War II in a culture somehow drowning deep in and yet distant from the war's reality. Its

This was obviously a very beautiful book, coming from Joyce Carol Oates. It deals with Rebecca, the gravedigger's daughter, whose family moved to America just before the 2nd World War started. In many ways, this is a coming-of-age story because we get to hear about Rebecca's life from she's an infant till she's a grown woman. However, Oates' structure is beautifully puzzling as she starts the novel when Rebecca is in her twenties, on her way home from work. This is a story about struggles and

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.This book/story was just not for me. I listened to the first 4 CD's and had to send it back. It was just overwhelmingly sad with no light at the end of the tunnel.The author is an excellent writer portraying each character in depth and their relationships to each other. The Jewish family narrowly escaping Nazi Germany only to find antisemitism in the New York area alive and thriving. The father, a former school teacher and well educated, could only

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



I guess I liked this book, but reading it once is plenty for me. It was very well-written, but I just could not handle how ungodly depressing it was. Honestly, the main character can't seem to go ten pages without getting the shit kicked out of her (literally and figuratively) by all the Mean Bad Men in her life. First there's her father, who goes apeshit when his daughter dares to enter a spelling bee (I still don't get that); then there's her husband, who chooses beating the shit out of her as