Un parfum de cedre
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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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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Sisters, Families, Fiction, Family, Fiction, sagas, Nova scotia, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Sisters, fiction, Family -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction, Sisters -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction, Fiction, general, General, Domestic fiction, Literature and fiction (general), Dysfunctional families, Rape victims, Incest victims, Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction FinalistPeople
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Fall on your knees: a novel
2005, A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster
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Fall on Your Knees
January 24, 2002, Simon & Schuster
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Fall on Your Knees
August 2002, Wheeler Publishing
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Fall on your knees: a novel
1998, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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Fall on your knees
1997, Vintage Canada
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Traduction de: Fall on your knees.
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"A LONG TIME AGO, BEFORE you were born, there lived a family called Piper on Cape Breton Island."
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