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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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130000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Summary |
From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades. 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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Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Cotter Smith with Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, and Frederick Weller. |
| Summary |
When their younger sibling returns, the three oldest Blair children find their lives disrupted in ways they could have never imagined as they each tell their story that is interwoven with portraits of their family at crucial points in their history. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Women artists -- Fiction.
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Families -- California -- Fiction.
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Adult children of dysfunctional families. |
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Brothers and sisters. |
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Families. |
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Family secrets. |
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Women artists. |
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San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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California. |
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California -- San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Audiobooks.
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Smith, Cotter, narrator.
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Fontana, Santino, narrator.
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Ireland, Marin, narrator.
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Sadoski, Thomas, 1976- narrator.
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Weller, Frederick, narrator.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Packer, Ann, 1959- Children's crusade : a novel New York, NY : Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio, [2015] 9781442383876 (NjBwBT)bl2015013181 (OCoLC)899153014 |
| ISBN |
9781442383883 : $79.99 |
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1442383887 : $79.99 |
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