About the author annmarie macdonald is a writer and an actress. Jul 24, 2016 fall on your knees is not one of oprahs best book picks. From awardwinning canadian actress and playwright macdonald comes a fullbodied, everrolling debut, the story of a talented cape breton family with more than its share of repression and tragedy. Its episodic rises and falls have the same sort of pageturning, cliffhanging appeal of that lesser medium. The international bestselling novel, fall on your knees, has been translated into seventeen languages and received the commonwealth prize, the canadian authors association award and two canadian booksellers association libris awards. A canada reads shocker, said jian, when annmarie macdonalds fall on your knees was voted off. Fall on your knees audiobook by annmarie macdonald. Set largely in a cape breton coal mining community called new waterford, ranging through four generations, annmarie macdonalds dark, insightful and hilarious first. Fall on your knees oprahs book club by annmarie macdonald and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Fall on your knees by the 1405th greatest fiction book. Whatever is meaningful, whatever is going to take me to the next level with these characters. Twenty years in a desert jail by malika oufkir cane river by lalita tademy the corrections by jonathan franzen a fine balance by rohinton mistry fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald sula by toni morrison.
Fall on your knees by the 1405th greatest fiction book of. Fall on your knees is not one of oprahs best book picks. As i was reading, i thought, this author must have spent some time in a mental institution. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Fall on your knees was previously published in canada, where it rose to the top of the bestseller lists. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald goodreads. Submissive behavior, incest, death and more its all in there. Macdonald won the commonwealth writers prize for her first novel, fall on your knees, which was also named to oprah winfreys book club. Its kind of like a supersized rollercoaster whose last nervejangling swerving turn and earthward plunge comes when you least expect it. Fall on your knees oprahs book club 9781565116924 by annmarie macdonald and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices.
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Set on stormy cape breton island off nova scotia, fall on your knees is an internationally acclaimed muligenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Fall on your knees oprahs picks cover to cover books inc. This book is the 1405th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald, paperback. Well, many times during the reading of fall on your knees, i would say, how can that be happening now. It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. I have to agree with simi sara about the reasons for voting off the book, but perdita had an interesting point about choosing your vote based on the merit of the book rather than going with strategy though i have my doubts she followed that. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald what did you think about this book. Annmarie macdonald the piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. It follows the piper family from patriarch james meeting with materia, through the lives of their four daughters. This book may turn off a few readers with its dark themes and taboo topics, but i think the patient reader should find fulfillment by the end of the book. Thank you for being part of the amnesty international book club.
This page contains details about the fiction book fall on your knees by published in 1996. It was so well written and engaging that i stayed up all night and couldnt bear to get up even to get a refill on my diet coke. James piper is a self educated man with 3 daughters. Fall on your knees won the 1997 commonwealth writers prize for best first book, and was an oprah winfrey book club selection. It is one of those sweeping multigenerational pieces of historical fiction, but at the same time its really just a story about four sisters. He supports his family as a piano tuner and a later as a shoe maker. What a wild ride i couldnt turn the pages fast enough, oprah winfrey told her viewers as she announced fall on your knees as her february 2002 book club selection. Rent fall on your knees oprahs book club by annmarie. Her first play, goodnight desdemona good morning juliet, was premiered in 1988 by the. Literary guild and doubleday book club alternate selections. Nova scotia, to new york city in the 1920sadd texture to an entrancing narrative. Fall on your knees is a 1996 novel by canadian playwright, actor and novelist annmarie macdonald. Reading group guide for fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald 1 in the prologue silent pictures, the author sets the scene through a narrators voice and drops you into the middle of the piper familys tangled relationships. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald, paperback barnes.
Buy a cheap copy of fall on your knees book by annmarie macdonald. Fall on your knees is probably the most intricately and exquisitely plotted book in canadian literature. Fall on your knees is a 1996 novel by ann marie macdonald. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Mar 17, 2012 fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald what did you think about this book. Fall on your knees oprahs book club by annmarie macdonald. The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and. We were the mulvaneys by joyce carol oates icy sparks by gwyn hyman rubio stolen lives. Fall on your knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Fall on your knees is filled with forbidden love and taboos.
Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Macdonald brings her characters to life so much that i had to keep reminding myself the book was fiction. Fall on your knees is the story of the piper family. Introduction fall on your knees wikipedia gradesaver. The knee pain guru double your money back guarantee this program is the sum total of the past 2 decades of my lifes work and i believe so strongly in what i have to share with you, that im willing to give you my own personal knee pain guru double your money back guarantee. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald book club. This book left me hanging at the end after such a promising start. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives even destroy them. The uniqueness of macdonalds voice, and of her approach, lies in her ability to distillshe can capture, deftly, the fleeting moment, the fragmented feelings that make up so. It was selected for oprah winfreys book club and the commonwealth writers prize, and it has been well received by readers.
The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex piper family. As the 19th century ends, young james piper travels from the breton hinterland to the civilized port of sydney seeking his fortune, and in no time at all he acquires a child bride, a house built by. Fall on your knees 1996, the debut historical novel by annmarie macdonald, tells the story of a broken family and its numerous secrets over five generations. Ive always considered myself to be a pretty slow reader, so imagine my horror at the thought of having to read this 566 page novel for a class now imagine the feeling of utter accomplishment and pride when i finished reading it in 3 days. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald helens online. Fall on your knees by pepper choplin, paperback barnes. Fall on your knees is an internationally acclaimed muligenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. A dark look at a womans life in the early 19th century. Fall on your knees oprahs book club 9781565116924 by annmarie macdonald and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at. Set largely in a cape breton coal mining community called new waterford, ranging through four generations, annmarie macdonalds dark, insightful and hilarious first novel focuses on the piper sisters and their.
Our book for julyaugust is the remarkable fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald, recommended by guest reader wayne johnston. Based in a small canadian town in the late 1800s through the midtwentieth century, the novel tells the story of the relationships between the father james, his wife materia, and their three daughters, kathleen, mercedes, and frances. Fall on your knees by annmarie macdonald 2002, paperback. She received the governor annmarie macdonald is a canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in toronto, ontario. Introduction fall on your knees annmarie macdonald introduction. Family, fiction, sisters, families, family nova scotia cape breton island fiction, sisters nova scotia cape breton island fiction. And, i chose to read fall on your knees before she chose it, so there this story was absorbing. Fall on your knees book by annmarie macdonald official. I had too many questions about what happened to some of the main characters after i finished it. Its not your run of the mill soap opera, but a tragic epic spanning several generations. Even though the book is not new, the territory it covers is very current and. Moving and finely written, fall on your knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a story and a world that resonate long after the last page is turned.
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