The Dive From Clausen's Pier
by Packer, Ann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375412824
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412820
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.75"x9.5". 369 pgs. 5th Printing. Pumpkin boards w/green cloth spine. Silver metallic letters on spine. Deckled edge. Jacket photo by Kamil Vojnar/Photonica. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, unclipped. Minor shelf wear to DJ. The Dive from Clausen's Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page." --Scott Turow
A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.
Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She's had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fiance, for as long as anyone can remember. It's with real surprise she finds that, at age twenty-three, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, for a chance to begin again.
That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need?
"The Dive from Clausen's Pier" reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after, whether by random accident or by the force of our own desires. It begins with a disaster that could happen, out of the blue, in anybody's life, and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know, or think we know, about our deepest allegiances. Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex," The Dive from Clausen's Pier" marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted newnovelist. Goodreads 3.42.
A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.
Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She's had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fiance, for as long as anyone can remember. It's with real surprise she finds that, at age twenty-three, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, for a chance to begin again.
That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need?
"The Dive from Clausen's Pier" reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after, whether by random accident or by the force of our own desires. It begins with a disaster that could happen, out of the blue, in anybody's life, and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know, or think we know, about our deepest allegiances. Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex," The Dive from Clausen's Pier" marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted newnovelist. Goodreads 3.42.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12780
- Title
- The Dive From Clausen's Pier
- Author
- Packer, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_clothspine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375412824
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412820
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
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