![]() ![]() The currents of various styles and points of view blend together in a way that can't possibly work, but does. It's a great confluence of tones - grotesque and domestic, tragic and comic. Set around Niagara, the story reflects all the romance, mystery, and terror of that spectacular waterfall. ![]() I read "The Falls," her latest novel, in what seemed like one held breath. 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. And before you realize it, she's done the same thing to us. From the first page, you sense that they're going to be known to death, literally splayed by her insight. You can't help pitying the people who show up in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates. ![]()
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