- Families, Fiction, Family, 18.06 Anglo-American literature
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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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Ecco, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061236839
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