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In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilt and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly’s Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill–a loveless house suffused with... >Voir plus
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Une oeuvre dramatique dans laquelle chaque personnage impose son amertume et sa rancoeur aux membres de sa famille. Lecteurs déprimés ou claustrophobes s'abstenir...
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He wants to be closer to his children.
"Have you said your prayers?" he asks. If he stands just so, his feet wide apart, his back straight, both his shoulders brush the door frame. He feels he is standing the way a father should: upright, firm, filling in the extra space.
"Have you said your prayers?" he asks. If he stands just so, his feet wide apart, his back straight, both his shoulders brush the door frame. He feels he is standing the way a father should: upright, firm, filling in the extra space.
(...) if you pay attention, you don't even need your guardian angel anymore. The angel kisses you good-bye and moves on to someone else, perhaps another girl or an old man or even a cat or a dog, because angels can't tell the difference. Angels can fall in love with anyone.
(...) Ellen always felt a sweet, secret relief at folding back into the blackness of the countryside, heading for home, the quietly lit farmhouses spread out from one another as if they'd fallen to earth; a shower of meteorites, each still faintly burning.
When a commercial interrupts, James watches that too. He loves TV more than anything he can think of. It is small and neat; it is easy to understand.
Mary-Margaret looks like a child's paper construction, gray with paste, wrinkled at the edges.
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