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Author MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-

Title Fall on your knees : a novel / Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Publication Info. New York : Pocket Books, 2002.
1996.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION MACDONALD, ANN-MARIE    Check Shelf
Description 656 pages ; 17 cm
Note Previously published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.
Subject Families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
ISBN 0743466527
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