The Falls
ISBN:
9780007193769 (0007193769)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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, ...