New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Press, 2007. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. White hardcover with color illustrated dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed, binding firm, pages very clean and free from other names or markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has a rubbed "signed first edition" sticker on the front panel, light rubbing to the spine ends, some very light shelf soil to the white background of the front panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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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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Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 027545
Title: The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0061236829
ISBN 13: 9780061236822
Publisher: Ecco Press
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: AMERICAN FICTION SIGNED COPIES WOMEN AUTHORS NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;

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