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Chicago IL

12 October

Dear Rebecca,

Now I am angry! You have not called me & you have not given me your telephone number & how can I reach you? I have your street address but only the name “Rebecca Schwart.” I am so busy, this is a terrible time. I feel as if my head is being broken by a mallet. Oh I am very angry at you, cousin!

Yet I think I should come to Lake Worth, to see you.

Should I?

acknowledgments

Sections from Part I were originally published, in slightly different forms, in
Witness
, Summer/Fall 2003.

Chapters 6 and 7 were originally published in
Conjunctions
, Fall/ Winter 2003.

Chapters 16 and 17 were originally published, in different forms, in
Childhood
, editor Marian Wright Edelman, Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

About the Author

JOYCE CAROL OATES is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the author of 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. 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. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.

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NOVELS BY JOYCE CAROL OATES

With Shuddering Fall
(1964)

A Garden of Earthly Delights
(1967)

Expensive People
(1968)

them
(1969)

Wonderland
(1971)

Do With Me What You Will
(1973)

The Assassins
(1975)

The Childwold
(1976)

Son of the Morning
(1978)

Unholy Loves
(1979)

Bellefleur
(1980)

Angel of Light
(1981)

A Bloodsmoor Romance
(1982)

Mysteries of Winterthurn
(1984)

Solstice
(1985)

Marya: A Life
(1986)

You Must Remember This
(1987)

American Appetites
(1989)

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
(1990)

Black Water
(1992)

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
(1993)

What I Lived For
(1994)

Zombie
(1995)

We Were the Mulvaneys
(1996)

Man Crazy
(1997)

My Heart Laid Bare
(1998)

Broke Heart Blues
(1999)

Blonde
(2000)

Middle Age: A Romance
(2001)

I’ll Take You There
(2002)

The Tattooed Girl
(2003)

The Falls
(2004)

Missing Mom
(2005)

High Lonesome
(2006)

Black Girl/White Girl
(2006)

Credits

Jacket Design By Allison Saltzman

Jacket Photograph By Ralph Del Pozzo

Credits

Jacket Design By Allison Saltzman

Jacket Photograph By Ralph Del Pozzo

Copyright

THE GRAVEDIGGER
’
S DAUGHTER
. Copyright © 2007 by The Ontario Review, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition May 2007 ISBN 9780061744723

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