The Resource The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer
The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer
Resource Information
The item The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- 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 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" --
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The children's crusade : a novel
- Title
- The children's crusade
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Ann Packer
- Language
- eng
- 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 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" --
- Assigning source
- provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Packer, Ann
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.A315
- LC item number
- C 2015
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Adult children of dysfunctional families
- Brothers and sisters
- Family secrets
- Women artists
- Families
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
- Domestic fiction
- Label
- The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn883147423
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 432 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476710457
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883147423
- Label
- The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn883147423
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 432 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476710457
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)883147423
Library Locations
Library Links
Embed (Experimental)
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.crlibrary.org/portal/The-childrens-crusade--a-novel-Ann/rbOEJ5pGJ7M/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.crlibrary.org/portal/The-childrens-crusade--a-novel-Ann/rbOEJ5pGJ7M/">The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.crlibrary.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.crlibrary.org/">Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.crlibrary.org/portal/The-childrens-crusade--a-novel-Ann/rbOEJ5pGJ7M/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.crlibrary.org/portal/The-childrens-crusade--a-novel-Ann/rbOEJ5pGJ7M/">The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.crlibrary.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.crlibrary.org/">Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network</a></span></span></span></span></div>