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Fall on your knees  Cover Image Book Book

Fall on your knees / Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Summary:

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]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
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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