Mendocino and Other Stories

ann packer

With humour, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men - wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends and lovers - who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar.

Genres short storiesfictionbook clubunfinishedliterary fictionamerican

241 pages, Paperback

First published May 1,1994

Literary awards

oregon book award,

This edition

Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2003 by Vintage Contemporaries
ISBN: 9780749934101
ASIN: 0749934107
Language: English

About the author

ann packer

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. 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.