{"product_id":"0061236829-the_gravediggers_daughter","title":"The Gravedigger's Daughter","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003ein 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003ethe Gravedigger's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ethe Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eblonde\u003c\/i\u003e, And \u003ci\u003ewe Were The Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\nthe Washington Post - Brian Hall\n\u003cp\u003ethis Is Neither A Depressing Story Nor An Uplifting One. Oates Succeeds Here, As She Often Does, In Making Such Judgments Feel Simple-minded. What It All Seems Is True And Therefore Moving And Somewhat Terrible, But In An Exhilarating Way. Every Aspect Of The Ungainly Plot Feels Right, Including Its Ungainliness. Resolutions Fail To Arrive; Lost People Fail To Return. Flowing Through And Past It All, Surfacing For These 600 Pages, Is Oates's Turbulent, Cross-currented Prose, With Its Hot Upwellings And Icy Eddies. It's The Opposite Of Lapidary, And Has The Disadvantage Of Being Impossible To Quote Effectively In A Brief Review, But For The Enthralled Reader, Oates's Water Will Eventually Have Its Proverbial Way With Other Writers' Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRomance\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eNew Adult \u0026amp; College\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47975409549502,"sku":"0061236829-4","price":23.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71EW78EXY-L.jpg?v=1783344793","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0061236829-the_gravediggers_daughter","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}