Fall On Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Vintage
22 August 1997

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A dazzling novel which takes us on a mythic journey through five generations of one family's secrets, miracles, conflicts, births, deaths and extraordinary loves.

Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and eath, and an extraordinary love affair.

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 391g
ISBN: 9780099740513
ISBN 10: 0099740516
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 22 August 1997
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Fall On Your Knees

MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed * New York Times * A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale * Guardian * Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers * Toronto Star *

Winner of Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Caribbean and Canada 1997.
Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize 1997.
Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Caribbean and Canada 1997
Winner of The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Caribbean and Canada 1997.
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1997
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1997.