Fall on Your Knees - Oprah #45 (Oprah's Book Club) - Softcover

Macdonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743237188 ISBN 13: 9780743237185

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall on Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The mythically charged family - James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition; Materia, his Lebanese child-bride; and their daughters: Kathleen, the eldest, a beautiful talent preparing for a career as an opera diva; Frances, incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl; Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock; and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption - is supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Fall on Your Knees is a story of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love.

About this title

Review:

"Newsday" [A] lyrical, complex, near-mythic debut novel....Remarkable.

"The New York Times Book Review" This resonant first novel...[has] a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed.

"Toronto Star" Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743237188
• ISBN 13: 9780743237185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512