Making matters even more complicated, in the months just before the accident she had begun to fall out of love with Mike. Unable to add item to Wish List. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world.

UG! When she is considering making a life change, destiny makes it for her. i started out liking it but by the time i was wrapped up in it, i realized how trite it was. - everyone was a cliche, or not very detailed.

Still, she moves to NYC with an old acquaitance from high school with whom she strikes up a new relationship and while there, she meets Kilroy, a man from whom she cannot turn away.

Finishing Ann Packer's The Dive From Clausen's Pier is at once an immense relief and an immense loss.

and "who the fuck would be friends with these people?" i really like the premise of the book - your fiance is in an accident and now a parapalegic, what do you do? She faces the guilt of leaving behind her life and paraplegic fiancé. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

The protagonist kept having all these realizations and experiences and stuff that all just seemed really obvious and banal to me. The Dive from Clausen's Pier is a beautiful, well written story of 23-year-old Carrie Bell, a young woman from Madison, Wisconsin. Her feelings towards him have cooled, and she doesn't know how to tell him. Unhappy in the relationship, she is considering ending it when her fiancé Mike dives off Clausen’s Pier into shallow water and breaks his neck. He cannot move his hands, has no sexual sensitivity and is going through his own sort of depression.

Ugh. no one talks or acts like these people, especially 23-year-olds.

Her relationship with her fiance Mike is boring her, and she wants to see the world and learn who she is. I hated it.

It's about a young couple in their early 20s living in the midwest-- Wisconsin (I think). Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anth.

But her big secret is...she doesn't really want to marry him. The story begins with a group of close friends from small town Madison, Wisconsin head to Clausen's Pier to celebrate Memorial Day. i just kept thinking "why would people like her?"

One day, when they are hanging out at the pier with their friends, Mike jumps in the lake and.

The problem? Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and three bestselling novels, The Children's Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. If you read this book in the past, do you even remember Lynn? She is also beginning to get a bit bored with her friends, including Jamie, her best friend for many years.

Wish I had back the time it took out of my life to read this.

rrrgg. Carrie Bell has been thinking, for a long time, of how her longtime relationship with fiancé Mike Mayer is wilting away. I listened to the audiobook in one day (it was part of Audible's two books for one credit sale), though I'd heard of it before and just never gotten to it. I actually wanted her to come to life so I could bitch slap her.

A story that strikes home because the main character does not do what seems to be the right thing. If you read this book in the past, do you even remember Lynn? The book was entertaining in an easy-read kind of way.

These ruminations occur as she finally decides to drive on whim to New York, chasing after a gay high school friend who has moved there to be accepted and Kilroy, a man she happens to meet at a dinner, who immediately and incisively reads her. It is a rich and utterly human story of loss, coming of age and self-discovery.

One day, when they are hanging out at the pier with their friends, Mike jumps in the lake and breaks his neck, becoming quadriplegic. I loved the fact that it wasn't a tidy book with all happy endings. The problem is that this becomes a novel about a girl trying to become a fashion designer in NY and the paraplegic boyfriend is left in the dust after all of 90 pages. And who is it the "right thing" for? He becomes a quadraplegic.

Rarely have I cared so much about a character: Carrie Bell is faced with the gut-wrenching decision of staying with her boyfriend, Mike, of 7 years after he has become a quadriplegic. 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 accident. It had potential - the plot centers around the question of what we owe those we love. And because I couldn't give up everything, I also thought I couldn't give up anything." i really like the premise of the book - your fiance is in an accident and now a. i wanted to like this.

The main character is a girl engaged to a man who becomes a paraplegic just after their relationship goes sour. Then it's all about fashion, and BAD fashion at that.

It was just sort of dumb. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. It is frank, and doesn't linger in pity. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

Setting: Madison, Washington and Manhattan, New York in modern day, 21st century The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer, tells the story of Carrie Bell, a twenty-three year old woman who is engaged to her high school sweetheart. It was easy to read with a promising story line, however, somewhere not too far into the book, the main character, Carrie started to become very unlikable. Narration: First Person Narrator, Carrie Bell

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.

i just kept thinking "why would people like her?" This was a very good book.

This is one of those books that really shouldn't be that involving but really is--at least it was for me. Finishing Ann Packer's The Dive From Clausen's Pier is at once an immense relief and an immense loss.

© 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, The Dive From Clausen's Pier (Vintage Contemporaries). “Lonely is a funny thing," she said slowly. i grew up near madison and kept trying to find connection to the characters and places. In the end, I was disappointed by the catalyst for action the author used. You want to read on to find out how the characters' feelings develop and evolve after the accident. I enjoyed it. It's a bit suspensful because you don't know if she's going to return to him or not, or if she should. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. I simply did NOT find the actions, thoughts, and dialogue believable for a young woman of her age.

On Memorial Day, Carrie Bell and her fiancé, Mike Mayer, drive out to Clausen's Pier for their annual ritual, a picnic with I couldn't really relate to any of the characters in this book, so no matter what situations they got themselves in (and the main character did nothing BUT get in situations), I found myself reading on more to find out how the author would get them out than what the actual characters would do. [3], http://www.shelfari.com/books/53101/The-Dive-From-Clausens-Pier/editions, http://www.annpacker.com/the_dive_from_clausens_pier, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Dive_from_Clausen%27s_Pier_(novel)&oldid=976252428, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 September 2020, at 00:23.

and "who the fuck would be friends with these people?" Reading this I was really impressed at what an undeniably good writer Ann Packer is, but then I really disliked the book itself. "It's almost like another person.

It takes place in the Midwest and is about a woman named Carrie who is about 25 years old at the beginning. Refresh and try again. I enjoyed all the supporting characters and their stories, but I'm relieved the twenty-something me didn't follow in any of their paths.

This book surprised me. It's about a young couple in their early 20s living in the midwest-- Wisconsin (I think). Remember how important she was to the plot? It made you wonder if you were supposed to feel sorry for her and her situation or everyone around her that she was so clearly hurting. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2020. She is planning to get married to her childhood sweetheart, Mike, whom she has been with 'forever'. I felt doomed to a life without personal growth. While all of the friends do their best to help him adapt to the situation, Carrie finds herself under too much pressure to stay in the situation, and impulsively moves to New York City. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2010. He's a likeable guy and loves her.

no one talks or acts like these people, especially 23-year-olds.

She finds herself in love with a new man, Killroy, who helps her find herself. No. - but carrie, the main character, is really lame and does random things without explanation or care.

Secondary Characters: Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Mayer, Simon, Jamie, Rooster, The novel was named as one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury News. She is confused, sometimes self-centered, yet struggles to keep her integrity in an overwhelming turn of events. I doubt I will in a week or so. Her relationship with her fiance Mike is boring her, and she wants to see the world and learn who she is. While this isn't classic literature, I was touched by the book. i started out liking it but by the time i was wrapped up in it, i realized how trite it was. She's about to break up with him, then he has a horrible diving accident while they're picnicing with friends. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published But her big secret is...she doesn't really want to marry him. The Dive from Clausen's Pier is the bestselling debut novel of American author Ann Packer. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. I really enjoyed the character studies, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2015.

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