![]() ![]() ![]() Moves to New York, where she meets Rose, for better or worse.) The object of her father’s affection - or is it obsession? Known for her blazing red hair. (Kathleen: the eldest daughter of the Piper family, a gifted opera singer and a social outcast on Cape Breton Island. And that, of course, turned out to be Kathleen.” She was in this … shimmering emerald dress, with flaming red hair. “And then there was this fourth figure, not in stained glass at all. There was a girl with a high-heeled red shoe and another with a severed braid, and another with a wooden crutch. And I had seen images of these three sisters who appeared like martyred saints in a cathedral, each of them holding what I thought of as a prop, or a symbol of their martyrdom. “I fully intended to write a play,” said MacDonald in an early morning Zoom interview. It’s a book with a devout following in Canada and abroad, shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 1996 and selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 2002.īut according to MacDonald, there was never any doubt it would be onstage someday. Set in Atlantic Canada at the turn of the 20th century, “Fall on Your Knees” searches through the rubble of the Piper family - secrets too dark ever to be uttered - and finds poetry in unlikely spots. Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel bursts at the seams with prosaic beauty, full of metaphor and hauntingly melancholic language. To fans of the sprawling epic, that might come as a surprise. From its very inception, the smash bestseller “Fall on Your Knees” was destined for the stage. ![]()
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