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Fall on your knees / Ann-Marie MacDonald.
The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780394281780 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 566 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2022]
- Copyright: ©1996
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Family > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island > Fiction. Sisters > Nova Scotia > Cape Breton Island > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC MacDo | 31681010334076 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
The questions, discussion topics and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees . We hope they will aid your understanding and enjoyment of this epic and enthralling saga of a multi-generational family history. - Random House, Inc.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book
Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged Piper familyâJames, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their daughters: Kathleen, a budding opera Diva; Frances, the incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl; Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock; and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemptionâis supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Together they weave a tale of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love. Moving and finely written, Fall On Your Knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a storyâand a worldâthat resonate long after the last page is turned.
