Carry Me Across the Water
  • Published:
    May-2001 (Hardcover)
    May-2002 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    240
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“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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    •  
    • May-2002
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 037575993X
    • ISBN13: 9780375759932
    •  
    • Jun-2002
    • Bloomsbury (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0747559244
    • ISBN13: 9780747559245
    •  
    • Sep-2002
    • Bloomsbury (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 074755790X
    • ISBN13: 9780747557906
    • First Edition
    • May-2001
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0679456791
    • ISBN13: 9780679456797
    •  
    • Jul-2001
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1588360075
    • ISBN13: 9781588360076
    •  
    • Jul-2001
    • Random House
    • eBook (Kindle)



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