An edition of Vinegar Hill (1994)

Vinegar Hill

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An edition of Vinegar Hill (1994)

Vinegar Hill

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In her remarkable debut novel, Vinegar Hill, Manette Ansay writes with startling authority and quiet elegance of one woman's gradual realization that in order to reenvision her life she must break all the rules. It is 1972 and Ellen Grier finds herself back in the Midwestern hometown she thought she had escaped for good. Worse yet, she and her family have had to move in with her in-laws: narrow-minded, eccentric people who are as tough as the farm lives they have endured.

Devout Catholics, they inhabit a world "as rigid, as precise as a church," and Ellen struggles to live by their motto: "A place for everything; everything in its place.".

But there is no place for Ellen - fresh, funny, bright with passion - in a house filled with the dust of routine and the ritual of prayer, the lingering bitterness of her in-laws' loveless marriage.

She tries to be the model woman everyone expects her to be - teaching at the Catholic school, coaxing her traveling-salesman husband through his increasingly irrational moods, caring for his aging parents - but Ellen's hopes for her family's future collide with life in this bizarre household, and she worries over her wryly observant adolescent daughter and her timid young son.

Encouraged by her friend Barb, a woman ostracized for being "modern" and "wild," Ellen begins to consider her own desires and dreams as well. Surrounded by the family's obsession with an exacting, angry God and the disquieting ghosts of the past, Ellen searches for a way to satisfy the demands of this rural community and its traditions until, at last, she discovers the family's darkest secret, one that frees her and changes her life forever.

Vinegar Hill is a celebration of choice and self-determination, the bittersweet landscape of one woman's spiritual triumph.

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Demco Media
Language
English

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Cover of: Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
May 2000, Viking Penguin Inc
in English
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Vinegar Hill: a novel
2000, Thorndike Press
in English
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Vinegar Hill
November 23, 1999, HarperAudio
Audio cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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Vinegar Hill
September 1999, Tandem Library
in English
Cover of: Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
June 1999, Demco Media
Turtleback in English
Cover of: Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
1998, Avon Books
in English - 1st Avon books trade printing
Cover of: Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
1998, Avon Books
in English - 1st Avon books trade printing
Cover of: Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
1994, Viking
in English

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First Sentence

"In the gray light of the kitchen, Ellen sets the table for supper, keeping the chipped plate back for herself before lowering the rest in turn."

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Turtleback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10924891M
ISBN 10
0606191240
ISBN 13
9780606191241
OCLC/WorldCat
228214407

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