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Authors: Ann-Marie Macdonald
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FIRST VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 1997
Copyright © 1996 by Ann-Marie MacDonald
All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada, in 1997. First published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto in 1996. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on your knees
eISBN: 978-0-307-36632-0
1. Title
PS8575.D38F3 1997 C813′.54 C95-932904-8
PR9199.3.M33F3 1997
Illustrations: Gina Wilkinson
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - To Seek His Fortune
Chapter 2 - His Left Eye
Chapter 3 - Low Point
Chapter 4 - The Jewish Lady
Chapter 5 - 1900
Chapter 6 - A Miner ’Forty-Niner
Chapter 7 - The Pit
Chapter 8 - The Price of a Song
Chapter 9 - Quanto Dolor
Chapter 10 - The First Solution
Chapter 11 - The Third Secret of Fatima
Chapter 12 - Moving Picture
Chapter 13 - Limbo
Chapter 14 - Over Here
Chapter 15 - Holy Angels
Chapter 16 - Three Sisters
Chapter 17 - Women of Canada Say, “Go!”
Chapter 18 - Dulce et Decorum
Chapter 19 - The Bobbseys At Home
Chapter 20 - Boots
Chapter 21 - The Candy of Strangers
Chapter 22 - Lady Liberty
Chapter 23 - The Children’s Hour
Chapter 24 - O Holy Night
Chapter 25 - The Mass Card
Chapter 26 - Cave Paintings
Chapter 27 - Blancmange
Chapter 28 - See No Evil
Chapter 29 - The Adoration of The Body
Chapter 30 - The Official Version
Book 3 - The Shoemaker and His Elves
Chapter 31 - Bootleg
Chapter 32 - The Demon Rum
Chapter 33 - Little Women
Chapter 34 - Cat’s Cradle
Chapter 35 - The Family Tree
Chapter 36 - Porridge
Chapter 37 - Water Babies
Chapter 38 - A Child’s Prayer for a Happy Death
Chapter 39 - Lest We Forget
Chapter 40 - Sweet Sixteen
Chapter 41 - Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Chapter 42 - We Are the Dead
Chapter 43 - The First Miracle
Chapter 44 - Baby Burlesque
Chapter 45 - Cheap Women ’n Cheatin’ Men
Chapter 46 - Lady Bountiful
Chapter 47 - The Ginger Man
Chapter 48 - Don’t Whine
Chapter 49 - Dark Ladies
Chapter 50 - Salt
Chapter 51 - Harem Scarem
Chapter 52 - Thief in the Night
Chapter 53 - Via Dolorosa
Chapter 54 - A New and Glorious Morn
Chapter 55 - Precious Blood
Chapter 56 - Blessed Art Thou amongst Women
Chapter 57 - Sisters of Mercy
Chapter 58 - Certain Effects
Chapter 59 - Blue Dress
Chapter 60
Chapter 61 - “The sands of Mecca shape a rose”
Chapter 62 - St Anthony, Patron Saint of Lost Objects
Chapter 63 - Armistice Day
Chapter 64 - “a garden inclosed is my sister … a spring shut up, a fountain sealed”
Chapter 65 - Sudden Light
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - To Seek His Fortune
Chapter 2 - His Left Eye
Chapter 3 - Low Point
Chapter 4 - The Jewish Lady
Chapter 5 - 1900
Chapter 6 - A Miner ’Forty-Niner
Chapter 7 - The Pit