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Author: Joyce Carol OatesFormat: Paperback
Publisher: HarpercollinsISBN-10: 0060722290
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780060722296
Subject: Literature, ModernPublication Year: 2005
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Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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Niagara Falls in the 1950s is the setting for Joyce Carol Oates's novel. It begins with a shocking event: the suicide of a man married for less than a day, who leaps into the falls and is swept away by the rushing torrent. As his grieving widow, Ariah Littrell, keeps a vigil during the search for his body, she encounters a wealthy local man who, unexpectedly, falls deeply in love with her. Their history together, and the way the night of the suicide reverberates in their lives and in those of their children, provides the framework for Oates's investigation of America in the second half of the 20th century, culminating in the tragedy of Love Canal and the subsequent class-action suit in the early 1980s. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

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Length:481 pages
Height:8.0 in.
Width:5.3 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:15.4 oz.

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Follows the interconnected and secretive lives of parents and their children when they are challenged by circumstances outside their family, in a tale set against a backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century. By the award-winning author of Blonde.

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"Oates painstakingly examines the impulse toward self-destruction--and the ways we find to heal ourselves....This big, enthralling novel recaptures [Oates's] gift for Dreiserian realism....It's her best ever--and a masterpiece."
Kirkus  (06/15/2004)

"Oates...is writing at the top of her form.....[A] haunting story in which nature and humans are equally rapacious and self-destructive."
Publishers Weekly  (07/05/2004)

"I read THE FALLS...in what seemed like one held breath. Set around Niagara, the story reflects all the romance, mystery, and terror of that spectacular waterfall. It's a great confluence of tones--grotesque and domestic, tragic and comic. The currents of various styles and points of view blend together in a way that can't possibly work, but does....THE FALLS is written in a strange, fluid cycle of voices, a blending of these characters' thoughts and the author's searing, ironic judgment. Sometimes, characters speak for themselves, or the three Burnaby children speak in a kind of composite voice. Some sections employ the repetitions of a chorus. Others sound like newspaper accounts. One odd chapter reads like an eroticized ghost story. Oates handles all this with winning confidence, moving through intimate details just as deftly as she re-creates a crucial period in environmental law....Surprisingly, though it's full of creepy, ominous energy, by the end this is a novel of forgiveness, of learning to accept what's oddest and cruelest about those we love."
Christian Science Monitor - Ron Charles (09/14/2004)

"...Oates evokes both the psychological depth and surface mannerisms of her feverish characters, whose blood, sweat and tears are the lifeblood of her incantatory language. Yet it is THE FALLS's strong if uneven narrative backbone holding them together, and its imaginatively rich geographical setting, that reinvigorate Joyce Carol Oates's themes."
Times Literary Supplement - Anita Sethi (09/24/2004)


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