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Swim back to me / Ann Packer.

Packer, Ann, 1959- (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400044047
  • ISBN: 1400044049
  • Physical Description: 225 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Walk for mankind -- Molten -- Jump -- Dwell time -- Her firstborn -- Things said or done.
Summary, etc.:
Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
Subject: Teenagers > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Divorced women > Fiction.
Middle-aged women > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Short stories.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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0 current holds with 1 total copy.

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Swim Back to Me
Swim Back to Me
by Packer, Ann
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Author Notes

Swim Back to Me

Ann Packer is the author of two best-selling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, the latter of which received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Real Simple. Also the author of Mendocino and Other Stories, she lives in northern California with her family.


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