Vinegar Hill
by A. Manette Ansay | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0380730138 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0380730138 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ReadingGal79 of Antioch, Illinois USA on 5/12/2003
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I got this book last Friday from the Friends of Lake Villa Library book sale for a quarter.
c. 1994 -- Oprah's Book Club
Back Cover: 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 the settling dust of bitterness and routine -- where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the strength to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.
c. 1994 -- Oprah's Book Club
Back Cover: 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 the settling dust of bitterness and routine -- where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the strength to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.
Journal Entry 2 by ReadingGal79 at Anything Goes Box-Bookwormsgathering Spot in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Released on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at Anything Goes Box-bookwormsgathering spot in Kelseyville, California USA.
Releasing in the "Anything Goes" bookbox ... part of Bookworms Gathering Spot yahoo group.
Releasing in the "Anything Goes" bookbox ... part of Bookworms Gathering Spot yahoo group.
duplicate copy-available for trade
duplicate copy
*available for trade
*available for trade
Journal Entry 5 by shellyann at Book Stop, the in Lakeport, California USA on Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Released on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 at The Book Stop in Lakeport, California USA.
