Fall on your knees : a novel
(Book)
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1998, c1996.
Physical Desc
508 pages ; 21 cm.
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Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Formoso Public Library | F MacDonald | On Shelf |
Randolph-Decker Public Library - Fiction | FIC MacD | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Family -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Incest victims -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Novia Scotia -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Family -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Incest victims -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Novia Scotia -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1998, c1996.
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.6, 26 Points
Level 5.6, 26 Points
Notes
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
MacDonald, A. (19981996). Fall on your knees: a novel . Scribner Paperback Fiction.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-. 19981996. Fall On Your Knees: A Novel. Scribner Paperback Fiction.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-. Fall On Your Knees: A Novel Scribner Paperback Fiction, 19981996.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Fall On Your Knees: A Novel Scribner Paperback Fiction, 19981996.
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