Packer, Ann
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACPacker, Ann
Summary: "A portrait of a California family spanning several decades that examines the way a troubled marriage sets the course of family life and encourages adult children to grapple with the past even as they attempt to create successful families--and lives--of their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PACPacker, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011Packer, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things said or done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011