This book alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the Great American Novelists. This novel of tremendous sweep and pace is about the American family in crisis – but also about America itself in the mid-20th century. As Ariah’s children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste materials, they must confront not only their personal history but America’s murky past: the despoiling of the American landscape and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. The Falls: A Novel Hardcover Deckle Edge, Septemby Joyce Carol Oates (Author) 806 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.00 61 Used from 1.30 11 New from 10.00 14 Collectible from 6.

So it all begins, in the 1950s, with the dark foreboding of the Falls as the sinister background to the tragedy.įrom this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children of secrets and sins of lawsuits, murder and, eventually redemption. The Falls Joyce Carol Oates 3.60 10,539 ratings995 reviews Want to read Kindle 11.49 Rate this book It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. During her vigil, an unlikely new love story begins to unfold when she meets a wealthy lawyer who is transfixed by her strange, otherworldly gaze. For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husband's recovered body. Joyce Carol Oates - The Falls, Paperback - It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskines young husband throws himself into the roaring. He's a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates’s career to date.Ī man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls.

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