![]() ![]() So it all begins, in the 1950s, with the dark foreboding of the Falls the sinister background to events. 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. ![]() For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husband's recovered body. He's a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. ![]() This novel is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date. A novel of tremendous sweep and pace about the American family in crisis - but also about America itself in the mid-20th century. ![]()
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