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Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie Macdonald
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Description for Fall on Your Knees
Paperback. A story of four sisters tied by inescapable family bonds, of miracles, terrible secrets, attempted murder and an extraordinary love affair. The settings range from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 406.
Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of ... Read more
Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099740513
SKU
V9780099740513
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About Ann-Marie Macdonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actress. Fall on Your Knees won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won Canada's Governor General's Award and has had more than fifty productions world-wide. Other works for the theatre include The Arab's Mouth and the libretto for the internationally acclaimed chamber opera, Nigredo ... Read more
Reviews for Fall on Your Knees
MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed
New York Times
A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
Guardian
Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, ... Read more
New York Times
A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
Guardian
Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, ... Read more