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  • Taschenbuch: 600 Seiten
  • Verlag: Harpercollins (6. Mai 2008)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0007258461
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007258468
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 12,4 x 4,1 cm
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Starred Review. At the beginning of Oates's 36th novel, Rebecca Schwart is mistaken by a seemingly harmless man for another woman, Hazel Jones, on a footpath in 1959 Chatauqua Falls, N.Y. Five hundred pages later, Rebecca will find out that the man who accosted her is a serial killer, and Oates will have exercised, in a manner very difficult to forget, two of her recurring themes: the provisionality of identity and the awful suddenness of male violence. There's plenty of backstory, told in retrospect. Rebecca's parents escape from the Nazis with their two sons in 1936; Rebecca is born in the boat crossing over. When Rebecca is 13, her father, Jacob, a sexton in Milburn, N.Y., kills her mother, Anna, and nearly kills Rebecca, before blowing his own head off. At the time of the footpath crossing, Rebecca is just weeks away from being beaten, almost to death, by her husband, Niles Tignor (a shady traveling beer salesman). She and son Niley flee; she takes the name of the woman for whom she has been recently mistaken and becomes Hazel Jones. Niley, a nine-year-old with a musical gift, becomes Zacharias, "a name from the bible," Rebecca tells people. Rebecca's Hazel navigates American norms as a waitress, salesperson and finally common-law wife of the heir of the Gallagher media fortune, a man in whom she never confides her past. Oates is our finest novelistic tracker, following the traces of some character's flight from or toward some ultimate violence with forensic precision. There are allusions here to the mythic scouts of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, who explored the same New York territory when it was primeval woods. Many of the passages are a lot like a blown-up photo of a bruise—ugly without seeming to have a point. Yet the traumatic pattern of the hunter and the hunted, unfolded in Rebecca/Hazel's lifelong escape, never cripples Hazel: she is liberated, made crafty, deepened by her ultimately successful flight. Like Theodore Dreiser, Oates wears out objections with her characters, drawn in an explosive vernacular. Everything in this book depends on Oates' ability to bring a woman before the reader who is deeply veiled—whose real name is unknown even to herself—and she does it with epic panache. (June)
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*Starred Review* Some of Oates' novels are tightly focused; others cover a larger social canvas. he Gravedigger's Daughter is a hybrid of the two. Set in Oates country (poor, working-class, rural New York State), it is a first-person tale told from Oates' signature point of view, that of a young woman in peril, and encompasses one immigrant family's tragedies during the Holocaust. Oates' intense narrator is born on the boat that carried her parents away from Nazi Germany, so Rebecca has never seen her parents happy. All she knows is the gloom of their mausoleumlike stone hovel beside the cemetery her father maintains. Oates evokes the bleak horrors of Thomas Hardy in scenes of suffering and denial as Rebecca's increasingly enraged father insists that they are not Jewish, even as her mother grieves over lost relatives. Madness and bloodshed erupt, and Rebecca is left alone in the world, destitute and uneducated. But she is smart and very strong, surviving her passionate liaison with Niles Tignor, one of Oates' most seductive and diabolical outlaws, and finding her calling in caring for her son, a musical prodigy. Oates is supremely atmospheric, erotic, and suspenseful in this virtuoso novel of identity, power, and moral reckoning. Donna Seaman
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5.0 von 5 Sternen A Gripping, Emotionally Wrenching Look at How Women Accommodate Men to Survive, 13. Juli 2007
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The Gravedigger's Daughter is the most compelling novel I've read in decades. My emotions were so wrapped up in this book that I could hear the sounds in the story's background, smell the surroundings, feel the clothing, and taste the food and drinks. I doubt if I'll ever read fiction that will move me as much as this book did.

The Gravedigger's Daughter is the story of Rebecca Schwart's life described in terms of how she accommodated men to gain physical security: her father, her employers, men who made passes, her first lover, her son, her future father-in-law, and her eventual husband. Without accommodating those men, she would not have survived. As it was, survival was not always easy. Ultimately, there was an enormous price to pay: She left little room in her day to be herself. Instead, life unfolded as a continual drama in which she had to play set roles or be treated in horrible ways. Worse still, the men wanted to convince her that their way of thinking was the only way . . . and some of their mantras stuck.

At another level, the book explores the question of whether humans are spiritual creatures or simply predators that feed off one another at their convenience. The book suggests that the spiritual realm has a limited reach, if it does exist.

Another dimension of The Gravedigger's Daughter is a consideration of how genes and environment play a role in shaping our choices and our preferences. This aspect of the book is best portrayed through considering how the lives of three generations played out.

Finally, the book has a profoundly dark look at the lasting damage that evil actions create. Throughout this book, Nazi racism continues to create harm.

Beyond those themes, Joyce Carol Oates has a positive view -- life is precious and worthy of nurturing.

The book's epilogue is a masterpiece. Long-separated cousins grope slowly toward one another in a series of letters that you won't soon forget. It's a marvelous expression of the alienation that separates us from each other.

Let me briefly describe the story. As I do, let me caution you against reading reviews that go into very many details. It would be very easy to spoil this story for you.

The book begins with a prologue in which Rebecca Schwart addresses her feelings about her father ten years after his death. Chapter 1 of Chautauqua Falls, New York switches to 1959 with Rebecca walking home from her factory job while being trailed by a man in a panama hat who makes her feel uneasy. In Chapter 2, you meet Rebecca's son, Niles Jr. (Niley). In Chapter 3, there's a telephone call from Niles Tignor, Niley's father. Niles is away a lot and Rebecca is most anxious for him to return.

From there, the book retreats in time to 1936 in Milburn, New York, just after Rebecca was born. Her parents and two brothers had just escaped from Nazi Germany, and her father had taken on the job of caretaker for the township's cemetery, work that includes digging graves. This is quite a change for a man who was once a teacher. His weak English skills limit his choices along with the Depression economy. This is no land of milk and honey for the Schwart family. The job includes free housing, in a hovel that's served by a graveyard-contaminated well. But hope rises when part of her mother's family later attempts to escape from Germany as well.

The story takes you through all of Rebecca's life, with a special emphasis on her early family life, her work, her first lover, her son, and her eventual husband.

Bravo, Ms. Oates!

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I'm sorry, I didn't get past page 20. I just didn't like the way the book was written, I felt bored and agitated at the same time. The sentences are really short and kind of provocative and it's just not fluent in reading. Maybe the plot is really good (that's why I bought the book because the summary was good), but I just couldn't put up with how it was written. A little example (for everyone who doesn't get annoyed by it - go ahead and buy it, I'm sure the story is good)
"And now this. This guy! Sent him a mean look over her shoulder, not to be encouraged. No one she knew? Didn't look like he belonged here. In Chautauqua Falls, men followed her sometimes. At least, with their eyes. Most times Rebecca tried not to notice. She's lived with brothers, she knew "men". She wasn't the shy fearful little-girl type. She was strong, fleshy. Wanting to think she could take care of herself. But this afternoon felt different, somehow. One of those wan warm sepia-tinted days. A day to make you feel like crying, Christ knew why. Not that Rebecca Tignor cried. Never."
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