Vinegar Hill (novel)

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Vinegar Hill

First edition cover
Author A. Manette Ansay
Cover artist Jacket design and illustration by Steven Dana
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Viking Penguin
Publication date September 1994
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback, & library binding), audio cassette, and audio download
Pages 240 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN ISBN 0-670-85253-8 (first edition, hardcover)

Vinegar Hill is a 1994 novel by A. Manette Ansay. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in November 1999. It was adapted as a TV movie in 2005, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Tom Skerritt.

[edit] Plot introduction

When Ellen Grier and her family come back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin, it is not what they were hoping. Ellen's husband, James, has no job. The family have to move in with James's parents, Fritz and Mary-Margaret. These two dislike each other but dislike Ellen far more.