Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

The best novel by Oates I have read, I think. I can quibble about the way she disposed of the wife-beating husband, but her story-telling instincts are probably superior to mine. And really, the story is about Rebecca/Hazel's life, and that is where the imaginative ending goes.

Compelling. Haunting. Morbidly satisfying.

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