Swim Back To Me
Author: Packer, Ann
ISBN: 9781400079735
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2012
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Ann Packer, author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, brings us a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories. Shimmering with psychological precision and unfailing intelligence, Swim Back to Me is Packer's most enticing work yet.
From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier comes an "exhilarating, searing" (The Washington Post) collection of short stories framed by two unforgettable linked narratives.
"With this collection, Ann Packer takes her place among today's best authors of literary fiction." -The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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 fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.
Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama- her most enticing work yet.
ISBN: 9781400079735
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2012
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Ann Packer, author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, brings us a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories. Shimmering with psychological precision and unfailing intelligence, Swim Back to Me is Packer's most enticing work yet.
From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier comes an "exhilarating, searing" (The Washington Post) collection of short stories framed by two unforgettable linked narratives.
"With this collection, Ann Packer takes her place among today's best authors of literary fiction." -The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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 fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.
Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama- her most enticing work yet.
