Fall On Your Knees:A Novel
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Fall On Your Knees:A Novel

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

1996•Drama•566 pages

Taste attributes: dramafamilyhistoricalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringtroubled leadsinjustice/tragedy/vengeancecomplex relationship

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Boxlist takeAn unsavoury, weighty novel: emotional and grounded. Best if you like edge over warmth.

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About This Book

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.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

DramaFamilyHistoricalTroubled leadsInjustice/tragedy/vengeanceComplex relationship

Subjects

SistersFamiliesFamilyNova scotiaDomestic fictionDysfunctional familiesRape victimsIncest victims

Details

Author
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Published
1996
Pages
566
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