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'Masterful...a classic parable of the human condition,' said Publishers Weekly about Ethan Canin's For Kings and Planets, and the same can be said about Canin's brilliant new novel, Carry me Across the Water Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry me Across the Water tells the story of a man and his family who forge their lives against the backdrop of World War II and the central years of the twentieth century. 'Take the advice of no one,' the young August Kleinman is told by his mother as around them in Hamburg, Germany, the Nazi party rises to power; and with these words to guide him, young August escapes to America, where he goes on to build a fortune, a family, and a life on his own daring terms. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate, August's bold journey illuminates, at the deepest levels, how our lives unfold. A shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, an audacious decision to start a long-shot business in America, a lifelong passion for an Italian girl named Ginger, estrangement from his modern children, violence, and finally, atonement for the sins of his life.
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The most wise and beautiful novel of 2001. London Daily Telegraph
Carry Me Across the Water reconfirms Canin s stature as one of the best fiction writers of his generation.
"The most wise and beautiful novel of 2001."--London Daily Telegraph
"Carry Me Across the Water reconfirms Canin's stature as one of the best fiction writers of his generation." --The Miami Herald
"A daring and heartbreaking success."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"It's [a] testament to Canin's mastery that he's able to encompass the largest possible themes--life and death, war and peace, mortality and transcendence--with such elliptical precision. . . . The novel represents such a powerfully transformative experience--for protagonist and reader alike."--Chicago Sun-Times
"A hypnotic, intricately structured, elegiac novel." --L.A. Weekly
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Carry Me Across the Water reconfirms Canin s stature as one of the best fiction writers of his generation.
"The most wise and beautiful novel of 2001."--London Daily Telegraph
"Carry Me Across the Water reconfirms Canin's stature as one of the best fiction writers of his generation." --The Miami Herald
"A daring and heartbreaking success."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"It's [a] testament to Canin's mastery that he's able to encompass the largest possible themes--life and death, war and peace, mortality and transcendence--with such elliptical precision. . . . The novel represents such a powerfully transformative experience--for protagonist and reader alike."--Chicago Sun-Times
"A hypnotic, intricately structured, elegiac novel." --L.A. Weekly
Ethan Canin is the author of Emperor of the Air, Blue River, the Palace Thief and For Kings and Planets. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in California and Iowa.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0747554927
- ISBN 13 9780747554929
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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