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"Do our childhood experiences determine our destinies? In shimmering prose and with exceptional wisdom, Ann Packer examines the life of a California family, laying bare the relationships between brother and sister, parent and child, while at the same time revealing the ways in which the past casts both shadow and light on the present. The Children's Crusade is a provocative, dazzling novel from a world-class fiction writer."--Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
Told in the most elegant prose... extraordinarily compassionate... A masterful portrait of indelible family bonds.--Joanne Wilkinson "Booklist (starred review) "
"A tour de force family drama... An engrossing saga... Packer brilliantly constructs the siblings' narratives with both an appealing lightness and an arresting gravitas... Packer's golden touch makes us care deeply for this memorable tribe."--Lisa Shea "Elle "
"An artful portrait of a California family."--Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair "
"A flawless, compassionate portrayal... literary fiction at its finest."--Donna Bettencourt "Library Journal (starred review) "
"Packer is an expert American realist at every level, from the interior monologue to the bird's-eye view."--Boris Kachka "Vulture.com "
"First-rate storytelling... Few writers are as emotionally astute at conveying subtle family ties as Packer."--Jane Ciabattari "BBC.com "
"Psychologically acute... provocative... Packer shows how unhappiness and happiness, selfishness and kindness, ricochet in complicated ways through relationships. This is a novel with something to teach about forgiving the people we love."--Marion Winik "Newsday "
"As the details accumulate, as each character's story builds, Packer's writing gains depth and power. By the end, all the separate threads weave a complex, textured tapestry. What a gift to the reader, who will certainly recognize and identify with the novel's universal themes of those knotted ties that bind, the varied meanings of home, and, in particular, the many ways the child is father to the man."--Mameve Medwed "The Boston Globe "
"Graceful, poignant... With her warm, nuanced portrayal of a family and its foibles, Packer delivers."--Hannah Sampson "Miami Herald "
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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 own. This is Ann Packer’s most deeply affecting book yet.
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- Año de publicación2015
- ISBN 10 1476710457
- ISBN 13 9781476710457
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