From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a lifetime.
A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy - and vulnerability - of fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.
Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.
Genre: Romance
A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy - and vulnerability - of fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.
Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.
Genre: Romance
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Hardback Editions
June 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Swim Back to Me (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print)) Author(s): Ann Packer ISBN: 1-61173-056-2 / 9781611730562 (USA edition) Publisher: Center Point Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Swim Back to Me Author(s): Ann Packer ISBN: 1-4000-4404-9 / 978-1-4000-4404-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Swim Back to Me (Vintage Contemporaries) Author(s): Ann Packer ISBN: 1-4000-7973-X / 978-1-4000-7973-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
April 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: Swim Back to Me Author(s): Ann Packer ISBN: 0-307-87792-2 / 978-0-307-87792-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
2012 : Unknown
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April 2011 : Kindle edition
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