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The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide.
- Joyce Carol Oates
- 2007
Jan 1, 2007 · The Gravedigger's Daughter. Joyce Carol Oates. 3.57. 10,855 ratings1,249 reviews. 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.
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Apr 1, 2008 · 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.
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- Joyce Carol Oates
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- Harper Perennial
May 29, 2007 · The Gravedigger's Daughter. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, May 29, 2007. 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.
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Jun 9, 2020 · 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
The Gravedigger's Daughter. Joyce Carol Oates. HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2007 - Fiction - 582 pages. This book tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant...
Oct 13, 2009 · 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...
