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02767nam a2200349Ka 4500 001 3AC00C8E2B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 005 20211120010853 008 050907s2005 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780060722296 (pbk.) 020 $a 0060722290 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)61446366 040 $a AMP $c AMP $d SILO $d IOF $d SILO 100 1 $a Oates, Joyce Carol, $d 1938- 245 1 $a The falls : $b a novel / $c Joyce Carol Oates. 260 $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c c2005. 300 $a xiv, 481 p. ; $c 21 cm. 505 0 $a Honeymoon -- Marriage -- Family. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Suicide victims $x Family relationships. $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z New York (State) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Waterfalls. $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widows. $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Niagara Falls (N.Y.) $v Fiction. 939 $a 5466608 941 $a 3 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20150911020455.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AC00C8E2B0A11DE8AF32708A8D7520A 994 $a 01 $b IOF 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PHAX277 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search