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"A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children - a seemingly perfect existence." "But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder, and, eventually, redemption. As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s." "Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Novel, Fiction, Suicide victims, Historical Fiction, Waterfalls, Family relationships, Widows, Women, Domestic Violence, Murder, brownfields, science, Radioactive waste disposal, Environmental aspects, Families, Fiction, psychological, Widows, fiction, New york (state), fictionPeople
Ralph Nader, Ariah Burnaby Fictitious Character, Dirk Burnaby Fictitious Character, Royall Burnaby Fictitious CharacterPlaces
New York (State), Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)Times
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The Falls: A Novel (Oates, Joyce Carol)
September 14, 2004, Ecco
Hardcover
in English
0060722282 9780060722289
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This work of literary fiction explores the dark side of family relationships. Romance noir defiles the pages paralleling the plight of Love Canal. As the nuclear age dawns on Upstate New York, the region careens into a new era with little care for the working poor.
The narration hops from family member to family member across time weaving a curse.
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