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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long,
from Robert Heinlein's 'Time Enough for Love'
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 Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Edition: 1ST
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0375412824
Release Date: Jan 1, 2003
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
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A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.
Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She’s had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fiancé, for as long as anyone can remember. It’s with real surprise she finds that, at age twenty-three, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, for a chance to begin again.
That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need?
The Dive from Clausen’s 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. It begins with a disaster that could happen, out of the blue, in anybody’s life, and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know, or think we know, about our deepest allegiances. Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted new novelist.
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a touching, tender story.....
-- A reviewer, Reader from Minnesota, August 19, 2002
Also Recommended: These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich
Very Entertaining!
-- Anita M, Lawyer, August 8, 2002
Also Recommended: David Poyer, James Huston, Victoria taylor Murray, MJ Rose
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-- Julie, August 7, 2002
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Ann Packer's first novel has all the weight of reality, tooled with a jeweler's precision. The Dive from Clausen's Pier is a poignant and painstakingly rendered account of a woman in flight from catastrophe, in search of herself. —Madison Smartt Bell
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