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“The gravedigger's daughter” by Joyce Carol Oates
“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.”
Taken from HarperCollins.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Siegel-t.html
http://jco.usfca.edu/works/novels/gravedigger.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates
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The grave digger's daughter / Joyce Carol Oates. — London: Harper Parennial, 2008. — 582, 16 p. ; 20cm
ISBN 978-0-00-725846-8
PS3565.A8 H37 2008
