Item specifics - Fiction Books
Author:	A. Manette Ansay	Format:	Softcover
Publisher:	Avon Books	ISBN-10:	0380730138
Edition Description:	Reissue	ISBN-13:	9780380730131
Category:	--	Publication Year:	1998
Sub-Category:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Condition:	Used
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Size
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	8.0 oz.

Publisher's Note
Dutifully accompanying her unemployed husband back to her in-law's cold and loveless house, Ellen Grier finds that she must struggle to keep her passionate spirit alive as she searches for the inner strength to endure an all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves. In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Mannete Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty 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 straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves. In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Mannete Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty 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 straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.
Industry reviews
"Ms. Ansay's gift for minute observation allows her to create a place so palpably dreadful that readers will wish they didn't remember 'Vinegar Hill' as clearly as they will." New York Times Book Review - Kathryn Harrison

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TOP COVER CORNER HAS TINY FOLD AND IS SEPARATING FROM BACKING. LIGHT BLACK SMUDGE AND GREEN LINE ON OUTER EDGE OF TOP PAGES.

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