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About
the Author
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Toronto-based writer and actor. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama. She won a Gemini Award for her role in the film Where the Spirit Lives and was nominated for a Genie for her role in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.
Fall On Your Knees was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 1996.
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Books by this author
Belle Moral (Vintage Canada, 2008)
The Way the Crow Flies (Vintage Canada, 2004)
The Way the Crow Flies (Knopf Canada, 2003)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Vintage Canada, 1998)
Fall On Your Knees (Vintage Canada, 1997 - Oprah's Book Club® selection #45, February 2002, CBC Canada Reads selection 2010)
Fall On Your Knees (Knopf Canada, 1996)
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Literary
Awards
- Selected for the CBC 2010 Canada Reads debate (Fall On Your Knees)
- Nominated
for the Giller Prize 2003 (The Way the Crow Flies)
- Winner
of Governor General's Award for Drama (Goodnight
Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet))
- Winner
of the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play (Goodnight
Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
- Winner
of the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama
(Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet))
- Winner
of the 1997 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Fiction
(Fall On Your Knees)
- Winner
of the 1997 CAA Harlequin Literary Award for Fiction
(Fall On Your Knees)
- Winner
of the 1997 Dartmouth Book Award (Fall On Your
Knees)
- Shortlisted
for the 1996 Giller Prize (Fall On Your Knees)
- Shortlisted
for the 1997 Trillium Award (Fall On Your Knees)
- Shortlisted
for the 1997 Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel
Award (Fall On Your Knees)
- Shortlisted
for Britain's Orange Prize for Best Novel by a woman
writer (Fall On Your Knees)
- Shortlisted
for The 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
(Fall On Your Knees)
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Praise for Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
"Imagine a collaboration among Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen, and you have the essence of Goodnight Desdemona."
-The Commercial Appeal (Memphis)
"Clever, pointed and entertaining… This play is one of the wildest and woolliest feminist appraisals that theatre has seen, and one of the most intellectually ambitious."
-The Globe and Mail
Praise for Fall on Your Knees
"Brilliantly-crafted… Profoundly and refreshingly different… Fall on Your Knees is about family secrets, the deeply buried events, memories and motivations that make human relations an almost impenetrable mystery. MacDonald has constructed a plot worthy of Victor Hugo, a novel that is like peeling an onion (not without tears) in its teasing revelation of truth… A standout."
-Vancouver Sun
"Ann-Marie MacDonald - one of Canada's most talented actors and playwrights - has provided us with yet another aspect of a talent that has no limits."
-Timothy Findley
"From award-winning Canadian actress and playwright MacDonald comes a full-bodied, ever-rolling debut, the story of a talented Cape Breton family with more than its share of repression and tragedy… A plate piled dangerously high with calamities perhaps, but the time, place and people - especially the children - all ring clear and true, making for an accomplished considerably affecting saga."
-Kirkus Reviews, January 15th 1997
"The uniqueness of MacDonald's voice, and of her approach, lies in her ability to distill… She can capture, deftly, the fleeting moment, the fragmented feelings that make up so much of what we term 'understanding'. Thus, complex experiences become single, vivid images. It is a rare talent that can produce it for others to see."
-The London Times
Praise for The Way the Crow Flies
"… [is] a mesmerizing recreation of a vanished era and a lost childhood… [MacDonald's] depiction of a vulnerable girl almost destroyed by the confluence of global politics and local murder is rendered with beauty and passion."
-Maclean's
"A little girl's body, lying in a field, is the first image in this absorbing, psychologically rich second novel by the Canadian bestselling author of Fall On Your Knees… MacDonald is an expert storyteller, providing an intricate recreation of life on a military base in the 1960s… a chronicle of innocence betrayed… The finale comes as a thunderclap, rearranging the reader's vision of everything that has gone before. It's a powerful story, delicately layered with complex secrets, told with a masterful command of narrative and a strong moral message."
-PW Daily starred review
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