With Shuddering Fall: A Novel
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 10:32:57
Synopsis
The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s most prolific storyteller.
Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco.
Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence. The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion.
Discover what prompted the New York Times to compare this young writer’s debut to Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, “The Lottery.” Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates’s vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.
Chapters
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001 With Shuddering Fall
Duration: 13s -
002 Chapter 01
Duration: 19min -
003 Chapter 02
Duration: 30min -
004 Chapter 03
Duration: 32min -
005 Chapter 04
Duration: 28min -
006 Chapter 05
Duration: 16min -
007 Chapter 06
Duration: 33min -
008 Chapter 07
Duration: 17min -
009 Chapter 08
Duration: 27min -
010 Chapter 09
Duration: 19min -
011 Chapter 10
Duration: 37min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 32min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 48min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 32min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 17min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 52min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 36min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 12min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 21min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 17min