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About Ann Packer
See more books from this AuthorWhile she confined herself to the first-person narrator’s point of view in her bestselling first novel, here the author persuasively enters the heads of five different people in northern California: Liz and Sarabeth, best friends since the suicide of Sarabeth’s mother 30 years ago;
Sep 03 2007 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...In Ann Packer’s ladylike, man-proof new novel, too much of the focus is given to the pedestrian, domestic details about her characters.
Sep 07 2007 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...In 2002, at the time of the release of The Dive From Clausens Pier, Packer explained in an interview on the literary blog Beatrice.com that she suspected she had been moved to write the book because she was thinking about how people cope with both the unthinkable tragedies that happen in life...
Sep 09 2007 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...Sarabeth, her friend from across the street --- who came to live with Liz's family when her own mother killed herself and her father left town --- is a single freelancer who, after a year, is still mourning a failed affair with a married man.
Jan 23 2011 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...(The only character she doesn't get into is Joe, Liz's 13-year-old son, but the book doesn't suffer for that.) More crucially, the internal views let readers experience Liz and Sarabeth's thoughts in the same unsympathetic framework, as the once-close friends drift apart on their separate trails ...
Sep 20 2007 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...Liesl Schillinger Los Angeles Times 2 of 5 Stars "The psychology is skin-deep, but Packer writes about adult female friendship with a nuanced understanding of its emotional intensity.
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Sep 20 2007 | Read Full Review of Songs Without Words (Vintage ...An aggregated and normalized score based on 76 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes