It also details pedophilia, sexual assault, incest, and rape. This study guide references the 2005 Touchstone paperback edition.Ĭontent Warning: The novel contains graphic depictions of violence, including combat, death by suicide, and medical trauma. In 2015, the novel was adapted into a four-part television miniseries by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Six years after its publication, the novel found renewed popularity when it was selected by Oprah’s Book Club. In addition, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize, awarded annually for the best book released by a Canadian publisher. It earned the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Novel, as well as the Canadian Writers Association Prize for Best Novel. Published by Vintage Canada.The novel was an immediate sensation and became an international best-seller translated into more than 20 languages. Company town.įrom Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald ©1996. And spreading away from the collieries and coal heaps are the peaked roofs of the miners' houses built row on row by the coal company. Railway tracks that stretch only a short distance from the base of a gorgeous high slant of glinting coal, towards an archway in the earth where the tracks slope in and down and disappear. The silhouette of a colliery, iron tower against a slim pewter sky with cables and supports sloping at forty-five-degree angles to the ground.
A small mining town near cutaway cliffs that curve over narrow rock beaches below, where the silver sea rolls and rolls, flattering the moon. Imagine you are looking down from the height of a church steeple, onto the vivid gradations of light and shadow that make the picture.
Here's a picture of the town where they lived.
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