Carry Me Across the Water

Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin.[1]

Carry Me Across the Water
AuthorEthan Canin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
2001
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages206 pp
ISBN0-679-45679-1
OCLC45284641
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3553.A495 C37 2001

It is an elegiac novel that tells the story of August Kleinman, a 78-year-old former Pittsburgh brewery owner who remembers episodes from his lifefrom his escape from Nazi Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in industrial Pittsburgh.[2] Both the Boston Globe and The Times selected it as a Best Book of 2001.

References

  1. "Ethan Canin, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008". Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. Krist, Gary (2001-05-06). "Modern Maturity". The New York Times. New York City, NY. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
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