The Gravedigger’s Daughter - Couverture rigide

Oates, Joyce Carol

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0007258453 ISBN 13 : 9780007258451

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2007

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. 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. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace—on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly “American” triumph.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0007258453
• ISBN 13: 9780007258451
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 600