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The children's crusade : a novel, Ann Packer

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"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
Work
Publication
Extent
432 pages
Isbn
9781476710457
Instance
Label
The children's crusade : a novel
Title
The children's crusade
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Ann Packer
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Subject
Genre
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" --
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1959-
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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
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Publication
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
Publication
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

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