The dive from clausens pier book

A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks. Mike is a quadriplegic after suffering a major diving accident. We hope the following questions, discussion topics, and author biography enhance your groups reading of the dive from clausens pier and provide you a useful framework with which to explore the themes it encompasses. Packers engrossing debut novel begins without ostentation. The dive from clausens pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your groups discussion of the dive from clausens pier, ann packers critically acclaimed and bestselling debut novel. Someone in the book either had cancer, was dying, or was just killed and i sobbed from the beginning of the book to the end. These questions lie at the heart of ann packers intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with jane hamilton and sue.

The entire book is one long exercise in feeling and memory, in love and in loss. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer, 9780553714982, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. With a keen and compassionate eye, she lays bare the nature of female friendships. Ann packer received the great lakes book award for the dive from clausens pier, which was a national bestseller. The first edition of the novel was published in 2002, and was written by ann packer. It begins with a disaster that could happen in anybody s life, and leaves us to asking what we know about our deepest allegiances. Apr 09, 2002 listen to dive from clausen s pier audiobook by ann packer. The dive from clausens pier audiobook listen instantly.

At turns enigmatic and candid, this absorbing story challenges us to look inward and to ask discomfiting questions about our relationships, our priorities, and our selflessness for which there are neither easy nor definitive answers. Apr 08, 2003 the dive from clausens pier has an affinity with the work of rosellen brown. The dive from clausens pier download pdfepub ebook. Free download or read online the dive from clausens pier pdf epub book. Songs without words, ann packers followup novel to the book club favorite bestseller the dive from clausens pier, once again showcases the many strengths packer possesses as a writer. Centering on one young womans conflict between her commitment to. Goodreads members who liked the dive from clausens pier also. The dive from clausen s pier audiobook, by ann packer. A riveting novel about loyalty and selfknowledge, and the conflict between who. Ann packer twentythreeyearold carrie bell feels suffocated and wants to leave her life in wisconsin, but when her fiance is paralyzed in a diving accident, she must ask, how much do we owe the people we. I love the selfactualization literary work this author falls under.

The dive from clausens pier will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when th. Reading guide for the dive from clausens pier by ann packer. The dive from clausens pier audiobook by ann packer. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page. The dive from clausen s pier reminds us how fragile our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after. The dive from clausens pier was a grownup lurlene mcdaniel novelette. Ann packers provocative debut novel, the dive from clausens pier, portrays one young womans conflict between her commitment to the people in her life and of her duty to be true to herself. The dive from clausens pier book johnson county library. Listen to dive from clausens pier audio book by ann packer. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer goodreads. Way back in the day, i used to read these terrible teen dramas by lurlene mcdaniel. Putting this aside, a dive from clausen s pier is a thought provoking first novel recommended to many women. In this story, the lifechanging event takes place in a threepage preface before chapter 1, and everything else. The dive from clausens pier will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when th shelve the dive from clausens pier.

The dive from clausen s pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. The water level is too low and he is taken to hospital in a coma, with a broken back. As interesting as the idea for the dive from clausens pier iswoman leaves her fiance after he breaks his neck and becomes a quadriplegicpacker cant quite pull it off. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. When carries fiance, mike with whom shes been in a relationship since high school dives from a pier into shallow water and breaks his neck, she must face decisions. It begins with a disaster that could happen to anyone and forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy. This book is also to be savored rather than plowed through. This is a riveting novel about selfknowledge and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer overdrive. There are complicated issues discussed in this book, as well as relationships and questions about obligations and expectations vs. Finishing ann packer s the dive from clausen s pier is at once an immense relief and an immense loss. A new york times bestsellersuffocated by her unexceptional life, carrie bell longs for a chance to begin again, and is granted that chance, terribly, when her fiance is injured in an accident. Carrie bell has been having major second thoughts about her engagement to mike mayer, but has been lazily trying to anticipate what will happen rather than actively discussing her fears and worries with mike.

His fiancee, carrie, is not in love with him anymore and is. Jul 25, 2005 i read the novel the dive from clausens pier and found it to be heartwrenching and a great look into the mind of a torn young woman. Carrie bell, like many 23yearolds just out of college, is searching. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the the dive from clausens pier, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. The dive from clausens pier reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after, whether by random accident or by the force of our own desires. About the dive from clausens pier the dive from clausens pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. She is a past recipient of a james michener award and a national endowment for. The character kilroy talks about hard art picasso and soft art matisse and certainly packer s is the former. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the dive from clausens pier vintage contemporaries. Mike, showing off for his somewhat disgruntled fiancee carrie, dives into some water and seriously injures himself. Jun, 2002 june, 2002 ann packers debut novel, the dive from clausens pier explores how tragedy can create everlasting changes in ones life.

The dive from clausens pier audiobook abridged listen. The dive from clausens pier vintage contemporaries kindle edition by packer, ann. June, 2002 ann packers debut novel, the dive from clausens pier explores how tragedy can create everlasting changes in ones life. Pdf the dive from clausens pier book by ann packer free. The dive from clausens pier ann packer, 2002 random house 432 pp.

The dive from clausens pier vintage contemporaries. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by. National bestseller packer knows just how to make a story build. The dive from clausens pier tv14 1h 26min drama, romance tv movie 25 july 2005 when an accident renders her fiance a quadriplegic, carrie faces mounting pressures that ultimately cause her to start a new life in new york. Listen to dive from clausens pier audiobook by ann packer. This is not the case in ann packers first novel, the dive from clausens pier. What metaphoric images does the title conjure up for the reader before and after reading the novel. Told through first person narration, the novel centers on carrie bells response to her fiances paralysis and through her reactions, questions the obligations and loyalty people have to those in their life. At the start of this quietly engrossing debut novel, twentythreeyearold carrie bell is tiring of her stalled life in madison, wisconsin, and her. The dive from clausens pier opens with an immediate tragedy to draw readers in to the story. Carrie and mike met at 14, were voted cutest couple at their madison, wis. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Knopf told through first person narration, the novel centers on carrie bells response to her fiances paralysis and through her reactions, questions the obligations and loyalty people have to those in their life. Listen to dive from clausens pier by ann packer at.

Carrie, the main character, must go through all she does in the book to be on her way to disover who she is. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer, paperback. Envision an inverted version of the dive from clausen s pier written from mike s point of view in which carrie had been the one to have had the. The lifetime movie just chopped it up, altered it horribly and left me appalled. The dive from clausens pier starts off slow but gets rocking. On memorial day, carrie bell and her fiance, mike mayer, drive out to clausens. Apr 01, 2001 from shortstory author packer mendocino, 1994, a reflective and probing first novel about a young woman reassessing her life after her fiance is crippled. Twentythreeyearold carrie is already quietly bored with mike when he dives off the pier at clausens reservoir and breaks his neck.

The novel is divided into three parts which detail the transitions of carries life. Find books like the dive from clausens pier from the worlds largest community of readers. Packer writes with a rare density of detail and ideas, and its just possible that the reader will be wiser at the end of the book than she was at the beginning. But if youve read the book i recommend not watching the movie. He is comatose for a period of time and, when he awakens, it is discovered that he is paralyzed. She is also the author of mendocino and other stories. Ann packer is a author that trumps the best books ever produced for todays competitive market. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer book club. The dive from clausens pier by ann packer reading guide. If you have not read the book and watch the movie, fine. Unhappy in the relationship, she is considering ending it when her fiance mike dives off clausens pier into shallow water and breaks his neck. While mike literally dives from clausen s pier, who figuratively dives from clausen s pier. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 432 pages and is available in paperback format.