The Children's Crusade: A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.Bill Blair finds the land by accident,...
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From the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Dive From Clausen's Pier, a sweeping, masterful new novel that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five decades.Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 19
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781476710457 (1476710457)
ASIN: 1476710457
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Wow, I have got to get some mindless summer beach reads, because everything I’ve read lately has been thought-provoking and kind of deep, and I am getting tired! But still. This book has about a 3.5 average after thousands of reviews, and I am torn, because at times I just loved it, and at other tim...
The Children’s Crusade: A Novel, Ann Packer, narrated by Cotter Smith with Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, and Frederick Weller. Over a period of about five decades, the reader is taken into the lives of the Blair family. Dr. Bill Blair returned from the Korean War wanting to forget...
While beautifully written with fascinating characters, Ann Packer's latest novel seems to be missing something. Read my review of this novel here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/04/17/odd-one-out/
I wish I could say that I loved this book. I did in the beginning, but the more I read, the more depressed I got. I'm sure book clubs will love this one as there are a lot of character flaws in every single member of this dysfunctional family, especially the mother. It was not a horrible book and th...
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