The Falls

  • Autor: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Narrador: Anna Fields
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 17:34:47
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Sinopse

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.

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. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.

Performed by Anna Fields

Capítulos

  • Chapter 001

    Duração: 02min
  • Chapter 002

    Duração: 07min
  • Chapter 003

    Duração: 43min
  • Chapter 004

    Duração: 33min
  • Chapter 005

    Duração: 46min
  • Chapter 006

    Duração: 32min
  • Chapter 007

    Duração: 28min
  • Chapter 008

    Duração: 53min
  • Chapter 009

    Duração: 03min
  • Chapter 010

    Duração: 54min
  • Chapter 011

    Duração: 55min
  • Chapter 012

    Duração: 51min
  • Chapter 013

    Duração: 17min
  • Chapter 014

    Duração: 32min
  • Chapter 015

    Duração: 50min
  • Chapter 016

    Duração: 42min
  • Chapter 017

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 018

    Duração: 15min
  • Chapter 019

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 020

    Duração: 05min
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