The Falls
ISBN:
9780007185146 (0007185146)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Pages no: 481
Edition language: English
This book met my standard for keeping me engrossed on the subway. Oates is certainly an engaging writer, with a flair for Gothic excess (sex in a graveyard, forsooth). When I saw the story was to be multi-generational, I hoped for a more robust pattern, perhaps along the lines of Wuthering Heights, ...