The Falls Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061565342 ISBN-13: 9780061565342 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: In her new novel, set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-20th century, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: P.S. |
Physical Information: 1.45" H x 5.78" W x 8.16" (1.02 lbs) 512 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y. - Topical - Family |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 82056 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 26.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, the Widow Bride of the Falls, begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family--a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which they were thrown together begins to shadow them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century, this haunting exploration of the American family in crisis is a stunning achievement from one of the great artistic forces of our time (The Nation). |
Contributor Bio(s): Oates, Joyce Carol: - Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including 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. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. 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. |