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THE FALLS; a novel / Joyce Carol Oates
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Mint/Near Mint
- ISBN 10
- 0060722282
- ISBN 13
- 9780060722289
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: ECCO / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Near Mint/Near Mint. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on a front endpaper, tall 8vo, purple quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, archival mylar-protected photographic jacket (price-clipped) by David High and Ralph Del Pozzo depicting waterfalls, [xvi] + 481 pages. Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Several of her novels have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. See also "The Glass Ark: A Joyce Carol Oates Bibliography" on the web. SIGNED COPY in Superior Condition in all respects. Tight, bright copy in FINE / NEAR FINE CONDITION! Dustjacket with slight edgewear and rubbing with minor loss at the spine ends.
Synopsis
A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption.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. As in We Were the Mulvaneys, a "darkly engrossing novel" (Washington Post Book World), she examines what happens when the richly interwoven relationships of parents and their children are challenged by circumstances outside the family.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.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5515
- Title
- THE FALLS; a novel / Joyce Carol Oates
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Mint
- Jacket Condition
- Near Mint
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060722282
- ISBN 13
- 9780060722289
- Publisher
- ECCO / HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- novel, family, awards, woman, novels, niagara falls, death, danger,
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