num_pages: 481
description: Paperback. Pub Date :2005-07-04 512 English HarperCollins UK A tale of murder. loss and romance in the mist of Niagara it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls.Hes a newly-wed. and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding.For two weeks. Ariah. the deserted bride. waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husbands recovered body.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.So it all begins. in the 1950s. with the dark foreboding of the Falls as the sinister background to the tragedy.From this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits. mur...
language: English
title: The Falls
titlecomplete: The Falls
characters: Chandler Burnaby, Gilbert Erskine, Claudine Burnaby, Nina Olshaker, Clyde Colborne, Dirk Burnaby, Stroughton Howell, Bud Stonecrop, Buzz Fitch, Reverend Thaddeus Littrell, Juliet Burnaby, Reginald Burnaby, Ariah Juliet Littrell, Royall Burnaby
genres: Fiction, Family, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 10854
places: Niagara Falls, New York, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger
publisher: HarperPerennial