The dive from Clausen's pier / Ann Packer.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries EditionDescription: 413 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0375727132 [newsprint]Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction | Accident victims -- Fiction | Wisconsin -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans.DDC classification: Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Sample text | Publisher description Summary: Summary: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign off strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller. At the age of twenty-three, Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Winconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing high school sweet-heart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it-and her fiance, Mike-behind.
But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable-and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Clausen's Pier animates this dilemma-and Carrie's starling response to it-with the narrative assurance, exacting realism, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.
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Summary: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign off strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller. At the age of twenty-three, Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Winconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing high school sweet-heart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it-and her fiance, Mike-behind.
But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable-and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Clausen's Pier animates this dilemma-and Carrie's starling response to it-with the narrative assurance, exacting realism, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.
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