Books Download Free The Falls Online

Be Specific About Books During The Falls

Original Title:	The Falls
ISBN:	0060722290 (ISBN13: 9780060722296)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gilbert Erskine, Ariah Juliet Littrell, Reverend Thaddeus Littrell, Dirk Burnaby, Royall Burnaby, Chandler Burnaby, Juliet Burnaby, Reginald Burnaby, Clyde Colborne, Buzz Fitch, Claudine Burnaby, Nina Olshaker, Stroughton Howell, Bud Stonecrop
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2005), Prix Femina for Étranger (2005)

The Falls

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 512 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 9585 Users | 914 Reviews

Identify Of Books The Falls

Title	:	The Falls
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction

Rendition As Books The Falls

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family--a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which they were thrown together begins to shadow them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder.

Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century, this haunting exploration of the American family in crisis is a stunning achievement from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation).

Rating Of Books The Falls

Ratings: 3.58 From 9585 Users | 914 Reviews

Weigh Up Of Books The Falls

This was my second Joyce Carol Oates after reading We Were the Mulvaneys. I didn't enjoy this one as much, but it's still well worth reading. I lived in the Buffalo Niagara area for 12 years, so I enjoyed all of the local color in this novel. In addition, a good deal of this story concerns the very early developments in the Love Canal case. I took a sociology class in college from a professor who wrote a book about the homeowner's group that formed in the wake of the lawsuits from a sociological

I've read some complaints about this book as being "over-written" and "boring" with "hard-to-like characters" - and while I can see where these folks are coming from - this is part of what I like about JCO. That she creates a complete & believable world with flawed characters, (who sometimes think in cliche, even - another complaint I read). I enjoy all the details, how JCO creates an image I can actually see. Contrary to what someone in another review complained about, I think it was

I thought this was an absolutely astonishing story. The writing is deep, and, though there were many times when I thought it seemed to go on a bit, I found myself still caught up in the rhythm of her astonishing prose. The central character, Ariah, is not a very likable character. On the first night of her honeymoon in Niagara Falls in the early 1950s, her new husband leaves their bed, walks to the Falls and throws himself over. Ariah finds the suicide note h left but destroys it without telling

In the opening pages of the novel, a young red-headed woman wakes to find her groom missing the morning after their wedding.  Honeymooning in the famous Niagara Falls area, scandal soon erupts as news arrives that a man fitting his description has jumped to his death in the falls.This is a novel that simply brims with excitement and interesting characters.  Oates reels her reader in with not one story line, but several - one after another - in what becomes a saga of this woman's life, the

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 details of ordinary life and then - when it's too late - pinned us on the sharp point of her wisdom.I read "The Falls," her latest novel, in what seemed like one held breath. Set around Niagara, the

JCO is one of those writers you either love or hate. I happen to love most everything she does; "The Falls" is no exception, although I really started to get bored with her story set-up. Once she finally got the ball rolling (about 60 pages into it) it was cinematic in scope and really ranks high among her best works. Set in the 40's through the 70's in (duh) Niagara Falls, NY, "The Falls" describes the falls' eerie, almost preternatural effect on a family, practically destroying it. I found

So much book and so little story! Pages and pages and pages of words that lead nowhere. Characters that only the Author could love (or even like). The history of the Love Canal lawsuit was interesting and that part of the story elevated the rating of this book. One feels for Ariah's children...stuck with a crazy, nerotic, insane mother. These are the only two elements of this book that evoke any feeling or reaction at all.Ariah! Here's a woman who should have stayed at home with her Pastor