2015, EAN: 1442383879

[SR: 2565630], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781442383876], Audiobook, CD, Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Book, [PU: Simon & Schuster Audio], 2015-04-07, Simon & Schuster … More...

[SR: 2565630], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781442383876], Audiobook, CD, Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Book, [PU: Simon & Schuster Audio], 2015-04-07, Simon & Schuster Audio, From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen’s 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 family’s future. One by one, the siblings take turns telling the story—Robert, a doctor like their father; Rebecca, a psychiatrist; Ryan, a schoolteacher; and James, the malcontent, the problem child, the only one who hasn’t settled down—their narratives interwoven with portraits of the family at crucial points in their history. Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” (The New York Times Book Review), her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” (The New Yorker), and the “utterly lifelike quality of her book’s everyday detail” (The New York Times). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s 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, 10163, Family Saga, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 3558939011, Coming of Age, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11047977011, Family Life, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 9822, United States, 9823, African American, 9857, Asian American, 9882, Classics, 524198, Anthologies, 2160, Drama, 9926, Hispanic, 16004731, Humor, 9955, Native American, 9966, Poetry, 17745819011, Southern, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10132, Literary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

2015, EAN: 1442383879

[SR: 2565630], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781442383876], Audiobook, CD, Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Book, [PU: Simon & Schuster Audio], 2015-04-07, Simon & Schuster … More...

[SR: 2565630], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781442383876], Audiobook, CD, Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Audio, Book, [PU: Simon & Schuster Audio], 2015-04-07, Simon & Schuster Audio, From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen’s 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 family’s future. One by one, the siblings take turns telling the story—Robert, a doctor like their father; Rebecca, a psychiatrist; Ryan, a schoolteacher; and James, the malcontent, the problem child, the only one who hasn’t settled down—their narratives interwoven with portraits of the family at crucial points in their history. Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” (The New York Times Book Review), her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” (The New Yorker), and the “utterly lifelike quality of her book’s everyday detail” (The New York Times). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s 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, 10163, Family Saga, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 3558939011, Coming of Age, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11047977011, Family Life, 10134, Genre Fiction, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 9822, United States, 9823, African American, 9857, Asian American, 9882, Classics, 524198, Anthologies, 2160, Drama, 9926, Hispanic, 16004731, Humor, 9955, Native American, 9966, Poetry, 17745819011, Southern, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10132, Literary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9781442383876

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” ( Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one… More...

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” ( Elle) 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 his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. 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 sets off a struggle over the family’s future. One by one, they tell their stories, which reveal Packer’s “great compassion for her characters, with their ancient injuries, their blundering desires. The way she tangles their perspectives perfectly, painfully captures the tumult of selves within a family” ( MORE Magazine). Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” ( The New York Times Book Review) and her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” ( The New Yorker). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s Crusade, “an absorbing novel that celebrates family even as it catalogs its damages” ( People, Book of the Week). This is a “superb storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle), Ann Packer’s most deeply affecting book yet, “tragic and utterly engrossing” ( O, The Oprah Magazine). Hörbücher > Fremdsprachige Hörbücher > Englische Hörbücher 14.3 cm x 15.6 cm x 2.9 cm mm , Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, CD, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<

ISBN: 9781442383876

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” ( Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one… More...

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” ( Elle) 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 his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her. 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 sets off a struggle over the family’s future. One by one, they tell their stories, which reveal Packer’s “great compassion for her characters, with their ancient injuries, their blundering desires. The way she tangles their perspectives perfectly, painfully captures the tumult of selves within a family” ( MORE Magazine). Reviewers have praised Ann Packer’s “brilliant ear for character” ( The New York Times Book Review) and her “naturalist’s vigilance for detail, so that her characters seem observed rather than invented” ( The New Yorker). Her talents are on dazzling display in The Children’s Crusade, “an absorbing novel that celebrates family even as it catalogs its damages” ( People, Book of the Week). This is a “superb storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle), Ann Packer’s most deeply affecting book yet, “tragic and utterly engrossing” ( O, The Oprah Magazine). Hörbücher > Fremdsprachige Hörbücher > Englische Hörbücher 14.3 cm x 15.6 cm x 2.9 cm mm , Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<

ISBN: 9781442383876

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