Carry Me Across the Water
by CANIN, Ethan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679456791
- ISBN 13
- 9780679456797
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Synopsis
Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin. 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 life—from his escape from Nazi German to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in industrial Pittsburgh. Both the Boston Globe and The Times selected it as a Best Book of 2001.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79667
- Title
- Carry Me Across the Water
- Author
- CANIN, Ethan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679456791
- ISBN 13
- 9780679456797
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0679456791
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