Inventing Niagara Beauty, Power, and Lies

Name: Inventing Niagara Beauty, Power, and Lies
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ISBN: 9781416546573

ISBN-10: 141654657X

ISBN-13: 9781416546573

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Authors: Ginger Strand

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Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redesigned, the Falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery -- waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. Emblem of nature's power, they are completely human-controlled. Archetype of natural beauty, they belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Ginger Strand was raised in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Her fiction and essays have appeared in many places, including The Believer, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Carolina Quarterly. She has been awarded fiction residencies by Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She lives in New York City.