The falls : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
By: Oates, Joyce Carol.
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BookPublisher: New York : Ecco, c2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiv, 481 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0060722282 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Fiction | Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) -- Fiction | Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction | Women -- New York (State) -- Fiction | Niagara Falls (N.Y.) -- Fiction | Waterfalls -- Fiction | Widows -- Fiction | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Fiction | Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) -- Fiction | Suicide -- Fiction | Women -- New York (State) -- Fiction | Niagara Falls (N.Y.) -- Fiction | Widows -- Fiction | Psychological fiction | Domestic fictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: The family of Dirk Burnaby, a New York State lawyer representing victims of Love Canal, and his wife, Ariah, whose first husband widowed her on their wedding night by jumping into Niagara Falls, is pulled apart by Dirk's obsession with his case and Ariah's fear that her history will repeat itself.
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The family of Dirk Burnaby, a New York State lawyer representing victims of Love Canal, and his wife, Ariah, whose first husband widowed her on their wedding night by jumping into Niagara Falls, is pulled apart by Dirk's obsession with his case and Ariah's fear that her history will repeat itself.
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