The Falls, Joyce Carol Oates
The Falls, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Falls

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 17 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/14/2004

Synopsis

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.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. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.Performed by Anna Fields

About Joyce Carol Oates

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 2019 Jerusalem Prize, 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. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on October 15, 2014

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 lo......more

Goodreads review by Kansas on July 30, 2020

"Gracias, pero nadie puede ayudarme. Creo que estoy... condenada". Esta es una novela que me moría por leer desde hace ya mucho tiempo, pero estando la mayoría de las novelas de Joyce Carol Oates descatalogadas o directamente no editadas en España, (un sacrilegio a estas alturas si tenemos en cuenta......more

Goodreads review by Chiara on May 06, 2018

Impetuoso, eccessivo e travolgente, proprio come le cascate del Niagara... Non era in programma leggere questo libro, no. E’ in ebook e DEVO leggere i miei libri di carta. Ma. Recentemente ho letto un altro libro della Oates e i riferimenti a questo mi hanno stuzzicato. Poi, ho vagheggiato l’idea di......more

Goodreads review by Ron on December 08, 2013

You can't help pitying the people who show up in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates. From the first page, you sense that they're going to be known to death, literally splayed by her insight. And before you realize it, she's done the same thing to us. For 40 years, she's coyly enticed us with the gothic......more

Goodreads review by Arybo ✨ on August 03, 2018

3.5? Le prime e le ultime cento pagine mi sono piaciute tantissimo. L’inizio è intrigante, affascinante, ammaliante e ricco di spunti interessanti. La fine, invece, è molto coinvolgente, ed anche appagante. Diciamo che la parte centrale della storia è stata un po’ noiosa, solo a tratti entusiasmante.......more

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