A. Manette Ansay
1) Vinegar Hill
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English
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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 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...
2) Sister
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A father's insistence that men be men and women be women leads to a family breakup. The son becomes a drug addict, the daughter loses her religion and the mother gets a job. Told by the daughter as she awaits a baby. By the author of Vinegar Hill.
3) River angel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When a drowned boy surfaces in a barn a mile downstream, still dead but smiling, the people of a town in Wisconsin see the hand of an angel, said to live by the river. The barn becomes a shrine and a tourist industry grows.
4) Blue water
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy -- and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible. On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin, Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are irrevocably altered when a drunk driver -- Meg's onetime best friend, Cindy Ann Kreisler -- slams into the Van Dorns' car, killing their six-year-old son, Evan....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A novel on a wedding in Wisconsin. The booze flows, the guests polka and everyone has an opinion on the couple's future, each the reflection of a different marital experience. A study in love and marriage by the author of River Angel.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical, haunting exploration of loves past and present. Witty, sprightly, surprising, this deeply original and utterly captivating new novel … beguiles the senses and dazzles the heart. A beautiful book." -Diana Abu-Jaber "As the parallels between the two relationships multiply, the novel catches fire.... Ansay is a gifted and sure-handed storyteller." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold. At twenty-three, beginning a whole new life in a motorized wheelchair, Ansay made...
