Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Ann-Marie MacDonald was born in Baden Sölingen, in the former West Germany on October 29, 1958. She attended Carleton University before moving to Montreal to train as an actor at the National Theatre School of Canada, where she graduated in 1980. She has performed in theatres across Canada, and näytä lisää continues to act in film, television and theatre. She has appeared in several independent Canadian films including The Wars and Better Than Chocolate. She won a Gemini Award for her role in the film Where the Spirit Lives and was nominated for a Genie for her role in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play, and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama. Her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, was published in 1996. Her other novels include The Way the Crow Flies and Adult Onset (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Fḡelvg̃en [ett familjedrama] 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Pill: The Untold Story of the Drug That Changed the World [1999 film] — Kertoja — 2 kappaletta
Where the Spirit Lives [1989 film] — Actor — 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie
- Syntymäaika
- 1958-10-29
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Canada
- Syntymäpaikka
- CFB Baden-Soellingen, West Germany
- Asuinpaikat
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Ammatit
- novelist
playwright
actor
broadcast journalist - Suhteet
- Palmer, Alisa (spouse)
- Organisaatiot
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Order of Canada
Governor General's Performing Arts Award
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Fayne is massive, more than 700 pages, and like the isolated estate whose name it bears, it is full of secrets and mystery. It is by no means perfect, but nature prefers making things different, not perfect by human standards, as one of the characters states in the book.
Charlotte Bell is a daughter of a seclusive aristocrat growing up on this ancient estate in the late 19th century, hidden from the world due to her "condition". She grows up thirsty for knowledge, hoping to one day be admitted to a university where she could continue her studies despite such a thing being unheard of for women of her social class. Charlotte's mother is a rich American heiress, who we learn about in letters she wrote as a young bride. She supposedly died after giving birth to Charlotte, soon after the death of her elder brother Charles. Other characters living at Fayne and Charlotte's spinster aunt living in Edinburgh also have their secrets that will slowly start to unfold.
There are many characters in the story, all very well-developed. There are also some great, unexpected twists. The big twist concerning the main character was not that difficult to guess, but it didn't take away the magic of the story. The atmosphere is phenomenal, almost gothic and fairytale-like at the same time while at Fayne, but we are often pulled out and thrown into the real world.
The range of topics Fayne covers is very broad, in the tradition of great Victorian novels; science, social class, traditional roles, class, morality, marriage, education... Had there been trigger warnings about it, I might have never picked it up. Some parts were very difficult to read due to the emotion bursting from the pages. But, I am so glad I did.… (lisätietoja)