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Anna gives birth to a girl, rebecca, aboard the ocean liner while it is docked in a new york harbor. An interactive retelling of shakespeares hamletthe story of hamlet is told by the gravedigger using shakespeares moving words and help from the audience. The gravediggers daughter by joyce carol oates goodreads. Jacob schwart, a high school teacher, is fleeing nazi germany with his pregnant wife, anna, and their two sons, herschel and august, in 1936. In shakespeares play hamlet, the gravedigger appears briefly in act v to perform a comic exchange with a fellow gravedigger before speaking to hamlet and presenting him with the jester yoricks skull. Your writing is so beautiful, so intricate, so compelling that i expect pleasure and delight. In joyce carol oatess new novel, a woman whose family fled hitler in turn flees the dangerous men in her life. When local prejudice and the familys own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravediggers daughter, rebecca heads out into america.
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