Fall On Your Knees

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• Fall on Your Knees

  by Ann-Marie MacDonald In a 1990 interview, Ann-Marie MacDonald said she is haunted by “the mythic place called Cape Breton,” and that her imagination projects “an aura of magic, of mystery” onto its landscape and residents. Predictably, her first no ... (read full critics)

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  This is a kooky story full of death, incest and various other family dysfunction. Frances is a certifiable story teller haunted by the accidental death of baby Ambrose. Mercedes is a martyr trying to hold the family together. James was never the same after the death of his first born daughter Kather ... (continue)

  This is a kooky story full of death, incest and various other family dysfunction. Frances is a certifiable story teller haunted by the accidental death of baby Ambrose. Mercedes is a martyr trying to hold the family together. James was never the same after the death of his first born daughter Katherine.

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  I remember being terribly disappointed when I read this book, but I've always thought (even then) that I had such high expectations for it, that it couldn't possibly have lived up to them. I need to read it again to see if my opinion has changed.

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• English Books
• Paperback 512 Pages
• Edition: 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed
• ISBN-10: 0743237188
• ISBN-13: 9780743237185
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2002
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Unbound, Others and eBook

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