Joyce Carol Oates discusses The Falls, her dark and powerful novel set in the 1950s in the vicinity of the Niagra Falls, with John Mullan and a live audience.
Famously described by John Updike as an author "born 100 years too late", in need of a "lustier audience, a race of Victorian word-eaters, to be worthy of her astounding productivity", Oates explores the mystical power of the famous falls and their place as the symbolic centre of her "ambitiously populated" family saga about love and suicide, urban decay and natural splendour.
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