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Fall on your knees : a novel
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Fall on your knees : a novel

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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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.

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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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