Awards
Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
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Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
A novel of tremendous sweep and pace about the American family in crisis - but also about America itself in the mid-20th century. This novel is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's 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 husband's 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 the sinister background to events. From this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder and, eventually redemption. As Alma's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste materials, they are confronting not only their own family history, but America's own murky past.
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Hardback Editions
May 2008 : Library Binding
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September 2004 : Hardback
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September 2004 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
June 2008 : Paperback
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2006 : Paperback
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August 2005 : Paperback
| Title: The Falls: A Novel (P.S.) Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0-06-072229-0 / 978-0-06-072229-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 2005 : Paperback
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December 2004 : Paperback
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2004 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
2005 : Audio CD
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September 2004 : Audio CD
| Title: The Falls (Rumpole Crime) Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0-7927-3296-0 / 978-0-7927-3296-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Chivers Sound Library Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2004 : Audio Cassette
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September 2004 : Audio CD
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Other Editions
October 2009 : Kindle edition
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