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Ann-Marie MacDonald

Born

in Baden-Baden, Germany

October 29, 1958

Website

http://www.annmariemacdonald.com

Genre

Fiction, Plays

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Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.

MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was also named to Oprah Winfrey's Book Club.

She received the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Author's Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).

She also appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.

Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Tru ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 78,994 ratings · 4,828 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fall on Your Knees 3.96 avg rating — 61,317 ratings — published 1996 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way the Crow Flies 4.10 avg rating — 12,789 ratings — published 2003 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adult Onset 3.26 avg rating — 3,384 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodnight Desdemona 3.76 avg rating — 1,348 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Belle Moral: A Natural History 3.57 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arab's Mouth really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Claim 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running the Whale's Back: Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada by Andrew Atkinson (Editor), Mark Harris (Editor), Carol Bruneau (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day the Men Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women From Cape Breton by Ronald Caplan (Editor), Ann-Marie MacDonald, Teresa O'Brien 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

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“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

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“She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

tags: blues, music

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Polls

Historical fiction ends up being our genre for January, which means we will read non-fiction in February. Vote for which book you would like to read next month. Last day to vote is Tuesday, December 16.

Fall on your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

3 votes, 50.0%

Poland

James A. Michener

2 votes, 33.3%

Queenmaker

India Edghill

1 vote, 16.7%

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay

0 votes, 0.0%

The Greenlanders

Jane Smiley

0 votes, 0.0%

Enemy Women

Paulette Jiles

0 votes, 0.0%

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