Vinegar Hill (novel)
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Vinegar Hill | |
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Author | A. Manette Ansay |
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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.