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Thursday, January 24th at 7:00 PM
ANN PACKER discusses and signs
Songs Without Words
(Knopf, $24.95)
At the Belmont Library
1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont , CA 94002
591-8286
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"Packer solidifies the reputation she established in the enormously successful The Dive from Clausen's Pier as an uncannily observant chronicler of contemporary American domestic life. Songs Without Words touches every nerve exposed by the solidly middle-class dilemmas of today's parents and children, husbands and wives, friends and lovers... The characters in Packer's novels are not so much exposed as they are understood... Packer is devoted to her characters, and it is her pleasure as a novelist - and ours as her readers - to watch these people move through the intensely familiar and intimate hours of their days and nights. ...her pursuit is so unnervingly attentive that it becomes revelatory. Middle-of-the-night readers ... who cannot put [this] down will surely look up at the darkest hour with the sense that they are being watched," said the Washington Post. And Publishers Weekly called it "a richly nuanced meditation on the place of friendship in women's lives." | |
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