Fall on your knees : a novel /

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 sui...

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Main Author: MacDonald, Ann-Marie, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1996]
Subjects:

MARC

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