false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188754501m/15972.jpg 15972 13 <p> 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. </p> <p> In <i>The Gravedigger's Daughter</i>, 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 <i>The Falls</i>, <i>Blonde</i>, and <i>We Were the Mulvaneys</i>. </p> 1596277 1 6 2007 The Gravedigger's Daughter total:1509|5:205|4:554|3:482|2:184|1:84| 1509 5139 2635 354 2 6 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:18:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:22:36 -0700 2008
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This is my first Joyce Carol Oates read and was for a face to face bookclub. In general I'm not drawn to "women in jepordy" stories but I'm always willing to give something new a try.

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Still, though, I keep picking them up. And as decently written as they may be, I'm miserable right along with everyone else. There's never a glimmer of ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 04:50:51 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 05:00:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Dec 03 18:12:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 18:17:45 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 08:35:34 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 08:52:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 22 07:59:20 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 05 02:01:35 -0700 2009 1
Oates details the story of Rebecca Schwart's life from her earliest childhood and on. Rebecca is the third child of p...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 07:51:37 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 17:15:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false true Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 15:16:20 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 15:32:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 14:26:13 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 14:26:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 27 08:38:58 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 09:08:12 -0800 2008
It was a story of survival, escape. One family escapes the holocaust only to ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:22:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:27:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 11:26:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 15:05:32 -0700 2009 1 With greatly reduced circumstances and in disillusio...more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 07:44:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 08:56:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:31:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:40:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 15:18:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:15:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 10:01:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:01:10 -0800 2009 Joyce Carol Oates's 36th novel proves that more is, sometimes, more. The Seattle Times calls it an "opus," while The Oregonian describes it as her "masterpiece." In a return to upstate New York, the novel, based in part on the life of Oates's paternal grandmother, carries excepti...

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