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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958- Fall on your knees. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1996 (OCoLC)625144680 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| ISBN: | 0684833204 9780684833200 0743237196 9780743237192 |
| OCLC Number: | 35212786 |
| Description: | 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Ann-Marie MacDonald. |
Abstract:
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. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.
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