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Title: Fall On Your Knees (Oprah #45) by Ann-Marie MacDonald ISBN: 0-7432-3718-8 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 24 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (466 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Drama on Cape Breton
Comment: Fall on Your Knees a book recently published in 1996 is a twisted tale of the dark secrets and events of the piper family. MacDonald incorporates the historical events of the early 20th century into the lives of this family in their search for peace and truth. This book was recommend to me by a teachers and I found it appealing to try a new Canadian author. Once I began reading Fall on Your Knees I became very fascinated as to what would happen next in the lives of the Piper family living in the haunted island of Cape Breton. This book emphasizes many family issues and problems that are quite disturbing to most. MacDonald touches on the issues of betrayal, incest, abuse, sacrifice, jealously and love. Several times through out reading I felt as though I was reading some sort of twisted soap opera. The novel took me through generations of the Piper family I began to feel for the children and the misfortune that they had in their lives. Although many of the issues that MacDonald talks about were extreme most of the underlying troubles in the book dealt with love. MacDonald touches on the love between mother and daughter, father and daughter and sisters. Most people can find it easy to relate to such feelings even if their situation is not so extreme as that of the pipers. MacDonald creates a world in her book that makes ones feel for the family. As I continued reading I hope that something would work out for the family. At times I felt as though the novel was extremely dark and depressing but at these times MacDonald skill in writing and her ability to make the story flow kept me reading. I would recommend this book to any adult or older high school student.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous book -- ambitious & flawed but VERY satisfying
Comment: Long, intense, and epic, Fall on Your Knees chronicles nearly a century in the lives of the Kathleen, Mercedes, Frances, and Lily Piper -- a quartet of sisters swirling in prodigious gifts, vivid fantasies, colliding cultures, supernatural Catholicism, and mind-numbing violence. Cape Breton Island in the early 20th century is a heady, exotic world, a salty setting with a stew of nationalities -- Scots, Lebanese, West Indians, and German Jews. The novel travels back and forth between Canada and Harlem, from the present to the past, until past and present converge in a finale that finally reveals the grand mystery hinted at from page one. Part fairy tale, part horror story, Fall on Your Knees is not for the faint of heart. At times it's overwritten, and it drags a little in the middle. But if you can stay with it through 500+ pages, you'll never forget it. It's a wild, wild ride, and I was sorry to see it end. A really good yarn.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: What a compeling story about a family who's secrets and betrayal almost ruin them.This is absolutely the best book I've ever read. James is a hard-headed, unreasonable and controlling male who causes havoc in his daughters lives. Kathleen is the prissy girl you can't help but fall in love with by the end of the novel when you learn of the circumstances surrounding her horrid end. Mercedes is the familiy's source of strength who helps them survive. Although annoyed by Mercedes' actions often she is still a compelling character. Frances is the bad girl you can't help but love. She turns her world upside down when she turns to alcohol and prostitution but manages to salvage herself. Lily has naive love towards everyone as her sisters try and protect her from the truth. An unstopable read that leaves you with a bitter-sweat feeling and an urge to call your parents and tell them how much you love them. Phenominal.
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Title: The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel (Today Show Book Club #18) by Ann-Marie MacDonald ISBN: 0060578955 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons ISBN: 0375703063 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: While I Was Gone by Sue Miller, Sue Miller ISBN: 0345443284 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Drowning Ruth by CHRISTINA SCHWARZ ISBN: 0345439104 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0452282829 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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