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Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 06.07.07
Speaker:: Joyce Carol Oates
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Summary: Joyce Carol Oates talks about The Gravedigger's Daughter.

A family desperate to escape Nazi Germany settles in upstate New York, where the father is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger an cemetery caretaker. What follows is a tale of unspeakable tragedy, as the gravedigger's daughter begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of ingenious self-invention and bittersweet triumph - Book Passage

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of many novels, including "Them," "Black Water," "We Were the Mulvaneys," and, most recently, "Little Bird of Heaven" and "A Fair Maiden." Her new story collection, "Sourland," is out in September and contains "Pumpkin Head," which originally appeared in The New Yorker. She has received the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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51 min 05 sec

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01.: Moderator Introduction

02 min 04 sec

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02.: Carol Oates Opening

01 min 24 sec

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03.: Behind "The Grave Digger's Daughter"

06 min 26 sec

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04.: Reading Excerpt: November 1936

04 min 14 sec

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05.: Finding Immigrant Work

03 min 10 sec

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06.: History Has No Existence

04 min 01 sec

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07.: The Owl of Minerva...

03 min 38 sec

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08.: Swastikas in the Graveyard

04 min 20 sec

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09.: Q & A

00 min 36 sec

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10.: Q1 - Writing Characters

05 min 43 sec

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11.: Q2 - Student Interest in Writing Narratives

03 min 46 sec

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12.: Q3 - Middle Age of Romance

04 min 35 sec

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13.: Q4 - Writing Withstanding History

06 min 49 sec

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51 min 05 sec

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Writing Realistic Characters

05 min 40 sec

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Using examples from her novel The Gravedigger's Daughter, critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how a writer develops realistic characters.
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51 min 05 sec

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