Beyond the Book: Background information when reading The Falls

Name: The Falls
Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780060722289

The Falls

by Joyce Carol Oates

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First Published:
Sep 1, 2004, 400 pages

Paperback:
Aug 2005, 512 pages

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- Literary Fiction
- USA
- Mid-Atlantic, USA
- New York State
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Generational Sagas
- Coming of Age
- Nature & Environment
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A number of reviewers compare Oates to Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), an American author whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light and, at the time they were written, were often considered to be amoral.

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