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| Title | : | Fall on Your Knees |
| Author | : | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 672 pages |
| Published | : | October 29th 2002 by Pocket Books (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 672 pages Rating: 3.96 | 60357 Users | 2938 Reviews
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They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War I, to the freedom and independence of Jazz-era New York City.Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family’s trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemption.
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| Original Title: | Fall on Your Knees |
| ISBN: | 0743466527 (ISBN13: 9780743466523) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Cape Breton Island(Canada) Nova Scotia(Canada) Canada |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (1997), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (1996), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (1998), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (1997), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (1997) |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 60357 Users | 2938 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books Fall on Your Knees
Okay - this is the second "Oprah's Book Club" book that I've read and, like DROWNING RUTH(Christina Schwartz), I disliked the story due to the disturbingly depressing plot. In DROWNING RUTH, the whole idea of a mentally-ill and controlling aunt (Amanda) ruining the life of her little niece (Ruth) after the girl's mother (Mathilda) mysteriously fell through the ice and drowned one cold winter eve was merely depressing; in FALL ON YOUR KNEES, however,the pervading theme of incest was more thanI stayed up until 3:30am last night to finish the last 60+ pages of Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees. I'll admit that I am always a bit of a night owl but even I don't stay up that late often. However I just couldn't put this book down. As the book wraps up it just pulls you in like passing a bad car accident. You know it's going to be disturbing and hard to watch but you can't look away.Fall On Your Knees (Oprah #45)The book follows the Piper family from the late 1890's through several
For 15 years (1996-2010), Oprah Winfrey picked books for her book club. Out of the 69 titles that she chose only 13 (19%) have appeared in at least any of the three (2006, 2008, 2010) editions of Boxalls 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:4 by TONI MORRISON (Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon) 2 by CHARLES DICKENS (A Tale of the Two Cities and Great Expectations) 2 by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera) 1 each by LEO TOLSTOY
I cannot recommend this book. I actually threw it away after finishing it.This tells you a few things. 1) The writing was so good and compelling and addicting it made it difficult for me to stop reading, despite my issues with it. 2) I didn't want anyone else to read it, so I didn't give it away or sell it. How's that for hypocritical and childish?There were some sexual images, specifically incest, that I could not shake from my brain for several days. I kept replaying the scenes over and over
What to say about this devastating masterpiece? It's the 2nd time I've read it, and while it was hard to read the 1st time, I think re-reading is perhaps worse, because I knew the horrible thing that was coming (incest/rape). I don't really know how Ann-Marie MacDonald writes beautifully about such dark things, telling the intergenerational story of this fucked up family. The voice actor does an incredible job with the audiobook. If you can stomach it, this is a masterpiece, as I said. But fuck
I loved this book! It was beautiful, witty, poignant, sad and educational.James was a sick,sick man. Families can really have so many dark secrets.
Where do I even start with this one? This is heavy, heavy stuff, full to the brim with family secrets. And some of these are some pretty hardcore secrets. When asked by a co-worker what I was reading lately, I barely knew what to say - "Well, this book about a family, and their gross father, and there's a lot of incest..." But while there is definitely a very strong undercurrent of incesty feelings and behavior running through the entire novel, there is much more to it.It's hard to give a high
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