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The Gravedigger's Daughter
de Oates, Joyce Carol
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Librería
-
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Ecco Press, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A first printing of this compelling novel of a family emiigrating from Germany in 1936. NF in a VG jacket, with a touch of shelfwear and faint fingernail marks to front cover.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003447
- Título
- The Gravedigger's Daughter
- Autor
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0061236829
- ISBN 13
- 9780061236822
- Editorial
- Ecco Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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Evanston, Illinois
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- First Edition
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