Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fall On Your Knees

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eine Familiensaga, angesiedelt in der kargen Küstenlandschaft Nordkanadas. Geschildert wird das Schicksal vierer eigenwilliger, charakterlich sehr verschiedener Schwestern. "Mit diesem Roman rückt Ann-Marie MacDonald in den ersten Rang literarischer Autoren auf. Die Handlung ist mitreißend, die Figuren tief berührend, und der Stil atemberaubend." (The Toronto Star.)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 547985
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780099740513
• ISBN-10: 0099740516
• Artikelnr.: 21471134

Autorenporträt

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actress. Fall on Your Knees won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won Canada's Governor General's Award and has had more than fifty productions world-wide. Other works for the theatre include The Arab's Mouth and the libretto for the internationally acclaimed chamber opera, Nigredo Hotel. She has acted in many plays, television dramas and feature films, including Where the Spirit Lives and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. She lives in Toronto

Rezensionen

MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed New York Times