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Praise for Ann Packer's "The Dive from Clausen's Pier
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"Packer knows just how to make a story build: the novel reveals a sure sense of pace and pitch, a brilliant ear for character . . . a searching emotional generosity."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Intricately detailed, deeply felt, compelling and utterly surprising. . . . Wonderfully satisfying."
--"The Boston Globe"
"Gracefully written and provocative. . . . An elegant book."
--"The Washington Post Book World"
"In quiet but beautiful prose, Packer tells a complex and subtly constructed story of friendship, love, and the hold the past has on the present. This is the sort of book one reads dying to know what happens to the characters, but loves for its wisdom: it sees the world with more clarity than you do."
--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"[Packer's] characters seem observed ratherthan invented, and capable of mistakes that the author may never have intended. The result is genuine suspense."
--"The New Yorker"
"From the Hardcover edition."
Packer's voice [has] extraordinary authority. . . . Compassionate, rich in solace. The New York Times Book Review Engrossing, forgiving and quietly wise. . . . Packer keeps both the pages and her readers' minds turning until the very end." People Packer has an unnerving ability to gaze steadily at feelings you can barely acknowledge even to yourself. . . . You are grateful for Packer's insight, refreshed and comforted by the depth of her empathy. Newsday Songs Without Words is an eloquent, on occasion harrowing account of friendship and its limits, the mind and its fatal fragilities, and the saving graces of human nature. Packer captures mental pathologies exceptionally well and writes beautifully about despair and love and how they travel together throughout a lifetime. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind"
"Packer's voice [has] extraordinary authority. . . . Compassionate, rich in solace." --The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing, forgiving and quietly wise. . . . Packer keeps both the pages and her readers' minds turning until the very end." --People"Packer has an unnerving ability to gaze steadily at feelings you can barely acknowledge even to yourself. . . . You are grateful for Packer's insight, refreshed and comforted by the depth of her empathy." --Newsday"Songs Without Words is an eloquent, on occasion harrowing account of friendship and its limits, the mind and its fatal fragilities, and the saving graces of human nature. Packer captures mental pathologies exceptionally well and writes beautifully about despair and love and how they travel together throughout a lifetime." --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind
-Packer's voice [has] extraordinary authority. . . . Compassionate, rich in solace.- --The New York Times Book Review-Engrossing, forgiving and quietly wise. . . . Packer keeps both the pages and her readers' minds turning until the very end.- --People-Packer has an unnerving ability to gaze steadily at feelings you can barely acknowledge even to yourself. . . . You are grateful for Packer's insight, refreshed and comforted by the depth of her empathy.- --Newsday-Songs Without Words is an eloquent, on occasion harrowing account of friendship and its limits, the mind and its fatal fragilities, and the saving graces of human nature. Packer captures mental pathologies exceptionally well and writes beautifully about despair and love and how they travel together throughout a lifetime.- --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind
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