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From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausenâs Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them. She finds salvation in art, but the cost is high. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the familyâs future. One by one, the siblings take turns telling the storyâRobert, a doctor like their father; Rebecca, a psychiatrist; Ryan, a schoolteacher; and James, the malcontent, the problem child, the only one who hasnât settled downâtheir narratives interwoven with portraits of the family at crucial points in their history. Reviewers have praised Ann Packerâs âbrilliant ear for characterâ (The New York Times Book Review), her ânaturalistâs vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than inventedâ (The New Yorker), and the âutterly lifelike quality of her bookâs everyday detailâ (The New York Times). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Childrenâs Crusade, an extraordinary study in character, a rare and wise examination of the legacy of early life on adult children attempting to create successful families and identities of their own. This is Ann Packerâs most deeply affecting book yet.
Hardcover:
9781476710457 | Scribner, April 7, 2015, cover price $26.99
Paperback:
9781476710464 | Reprint edition (Scribner, April 5, 2016), cover price $16.00
9780515070934, titled "So Wicked the Heart" | Reissue edition (Jove Pubns, September 1, 1982), cover price $3.25 | also contains So Wicked the Heart
CD/Spoken Word:
9781442383876 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 7, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausenâs Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.
Library:
9781628996067 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, July 1, 2015), cover price $36.95
From the bestselling author of Songs without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, her strongest work yet -- a collection of burnished, impossible-to-put down narratives framed by two stunning, linked novellas. A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy -- and vulnerability -- of impending fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families -- one a tightly knit foursome, the other a father and son who share little more than having been abandoned by the same woman -- forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.
Paperback:
9781400079735 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 3, 2012), cover price $14.95
Miscellaneous:
9780307595393 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 12, 2011, cover price $24.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9780307877925 | Unabridged edition (Random House, April 5, 2011), cover price $35.00
Library:
9781611730562 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2011), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: From the bestselling author of Songs without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, her strongest work yet -- a collection of burnished, impossible-to-put down narratives framed by two stunning, linked novellas.
Hardcover:
9780375412813 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 4, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the long-time friendship between Liz and Sarabeth, a relationship that is forged in childhood and sustained through the decades that follow, until both women are forced to reexamine their lives in the wake of a devastating crisis.
Paperback:
9780375727177 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 29, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains Songs Without Words
9780749938338 | Gardners Books, September 6, 2007, cover price $22.00 | also contains Songs Without Words | About this edition: Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen.
9780739327678 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, September 4, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the long-time friendship between Liz and Sarabeth, a relationship that is forged in childhood and sustained through the decades that follow, until both women are forced to reexamine their lives in the wake of a devastating crisis.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739354681 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 4, 2007), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the long-time friendship between Liz and Sarabeth, a relationship that is forged in childhood and sustained through the decades that follow, until both women are forced to reexamine their lives in the wake of a devastating crisis.
Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. But when an unforeseen calamity strikes at the heart of Liz's family, all the assumptions are revealed in a strange light.
Paperback:
9780375727177 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 29, 2008), cover price $14.95 | also contains Songs Without Words
9780749938338 | Gardners Books, September 6, 2007, cover price $22.00 | also contains Songs Without Words | About this edition: Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen.
Hardcover:
9780786247332, titled "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
9780375412820, titled "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
Paperback:
9780375727139, titled "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
9781410400932, titled "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Large print edition (Christian Large Print, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A New York Times BestsellerSuffocated by her unexceptional life, Carrie Bell longs for a chance to begin again, and is granted that chance, terribly, when her fiancé is injured in an accident.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780553714982, titled "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Abridged edition (Random House, April 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
Prebinding:
9780613628983, titled "Dive from Clausen's Pier" | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
A collection of short fiction that originally appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, and other literary periodicals includes the title story, 'Nerves,' the O. Henry Award-winning 'Babies,' and seven other tales that explore the lives of ordinary but memorable characters. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Paperback:
9781400031634 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction includes the titles story, 'Nerves,' and 'Babies,' and seven other tales that explore the lives of ordinary but memorable characters.
9780811806299 | Chronicle Books Llc, June 1, 1994, cover price $9.95
Paperback:
9780582028050 | Gardners Books, April 25, 1988, cover price $10.00
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