
Fall On Your Knees:A Novel
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Taste attributes: dramafamilyhistoricalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringtroubled leadsinjustice/tragedy/vengeancecomplex relationship
Boxlist takeAn unsavoury, weighty novel: emotional and grounded. Best if you like edge over warmth.
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Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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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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- Author
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 566
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- Open Library
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