Carry Me Across the Water
By Ethan Canin?Take the advice of no one,? August Kleinman?s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate ? a shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, the audacious decision to start a brewery in Pittsburgh and a violent reaction against threats to its independent success, a vacation in Barbados, during which his beloved wife mysteriously wanders off, the birth of his grandson ? August?s instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels. This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America?s finest writers. Publisher?s Weekly called Ethan Canin?s For Kings and Planets ?Masterful ? a classic parable of the human condition,? and the same can be said about Carry Me Across the Water.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 206 pages
- English
- 0679456791
- 9780679456797
About Ethan Canin
highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer, ethan canin has ranged in his career from the "breathtaking" short stories of emperor of Read More about Ethan Canin
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