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Title	:	The Falls
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

The Falls

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 9585 Users | 914 Reviews

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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).

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Original Title:	The Falls
ISBN:	0060722290 (ISBN13: 9780060722296)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gilbert Erskine, Ariah Juliet Littrell, Reverend Thaddeus Littrell, Dirk Burnaby, Royall Burnaby, Chandler Burnaby, Juliet Burnaby, Reginald Burnaby, Clyde Colborne, Buzz Fitch, Claudine Burnaby, Nina Olshaker, Stroughton Howell, Bud Stonecrop
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2005), Prix Femina for Étranger (2005)

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I've read some complaints about this book as being "over-written" and "boring" with "hard-to-like characters" - and while I can see where these folks are coming from - this is part of what I like about JCO. That she creates a complete & believable world with flawed characters, (who sometimes think in cliche, even - another complaint I read). I enjoy all the details, how JCO creates an image I can actually see. Contrary to what someone in another review complained about, I think it was

The terrible, wonderful appeal of a raging waterfall: you can cross above it, brave acrobat... you can lose yourself in it, angst and sadness begone, your body falling into something greater than the cares that weigh you down... you can wait beside it, a spectral vision of mourning and tragedy, a local icon for tourists to gape at, waiting for that body, waiting for the falls to rebirth its lonely suicide as it always eventually will... you can live next to it, next to its tamer parts, the

This book follows the life of a woman haunted by the rejection of her first spouse and her eternal fear that she will be rejected by anyone who is drawn into her circle of life. Ariah lives her life almost as a fugitive, constantly looking over her shoulder, reading into things said as proof that she is unworthy of affection. She becomes brittle and nearly unapproachable. By protecting herself, she seems to live life in the shadows, barely participating, but an influence nonetheless.

In the opening pages of the novel, a young red-headed woman wakes to find her groom missing the morning after their wedding.  Honeymooning in the famous Niagara Falls area, scandal soon erupts as news arrives that a man fitting his description has jumped to his death in the falls.This is a novel that simply brims with excitement and interesting characters.  Oates reels her reader in with not one story line, but several - one after another - in what becomes a saga of this woman's life, the

I picked up this book at a used book store. The back cover was intriguing and kept me hooked! This is a tragic story set in the 1950's in Niagra Falls, NY. I love Oates' descriptive writing. It really makes me feel that I am with the characters and following them through all their ups and downs. The story starts when a new bride loses her husband over the falls and follows the bride from that point on. I would recommend this book for anyone looking to get lost in a period piece with lots of

The beginning of this book mesmerized me much as the very Falls described here by Oates. For 120 pages, the book was just shy of glued to my hand, and I could not put it down. Then, for the next 200 pages, I could barely pick it back up, to continue. By the mid-300s, I was hoping there would be a chemical explosion at one of the factories and all of the characters would die, putting me out of my misery.I had never before read Joyce Carol Oates, so I don't know if this inconsistency is typical,

SynopsisWidowed on her wedding night when her new husband, a young minister and latent homosexual, throws himself into the falls, Ariah Littrell, the plain, awkward daughter of a minister, henceforth considers herself damned. Her bleak future becomes miraculously bright when Dirk Burnaby, a handsome, wealthy bon vivant with an altruistic heart, falls in love with the media-dubbed Widow-Bride. Their rapturous happiness is shadowed only by Ariah's illogical conviction over the years that Dirk will