When Joyce Carol Oates writes about men being violent, she makes me very uncomfortable. I feel uncomfortable because of how she writes; she makes me feel I am there in the book witnessing the violence with her and it makes me uneasy. I've never had that happen with any other author, and I take it to be a sign of Oates' wonderful talent.
The gravedigger follows the path of a emigre to the US just befor the first world war, and how her former nationality affects her path in life. The author shows how people are forced to make decisions, and how those decisions affect them for many, many years.
Sometimes Oates tends to be overly wordy; but this is not one of those times. All in all an excellent book, one of her best.
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