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Carry Me Across the Water : A Novel
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Carry Me Across the Water: A Novel
Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man’s turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother’s words—“Take the advice of no one”—fate him to a life of boldness and originality, from the poor streets of New York to the marble mansions of industrial Pittsburgh, from old world Hamburg to the jungle islands of the Pacific. Ultimately, near the end of...
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Carry Me Across the Water : A Novel
Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man’s turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother’s words—“Take the advice of no one”—fate him to a life of boldness and originality, from the poor streets of New York to the marble mansions of industrial Pittsburgh, from old world Hamburg to the jungle islands of the Pacific. Ultimately, near...
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Carry Me Across the Water
His wife dead, his health fading, August Kleinman knows that his life is dwindling away. As he contemplates his fate, he mourns his beloved spouse, and relives his childhood in prewar Germany. His thoughts drift over his boyhood escape from the Nazis, his military service with the Allies, and his successful business career. But a single image absorbs this 78-year-old man more than all the rest: The face of one enemy soldier. A striking novel about reliving the past and attempting to repair it.
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Carry Me Across the Water (Unabridged)
"Take the advice of no one," the young August Kleinman is told by his mother as the Nazi party rises to power around them in Hamburg. 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 terms. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate, August's bold journey illuminates, at the deepest levels, the ways our lives truly unfold. A shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II...
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This five-page undergraduate paper analyzes the novel, Carry Me Across the Water, by Ethan Canin. The author examines the hero’s quest aspects of the novel, and discusses Canin’s characterization of the protagonist, August Kleinman.
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Book Details CANIN, ETHAN. Carry Me Across the Water. Random House 2001. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 679456791. [Book #22864] Price: $10.00 save 10%$9.00 See all items in Catalog 52 See all items in Catalog 53 See all items in Catalog 55 See all items in Catalog 56 See all items in Catalog 57 See all items in Catalog 58: New Arrivals See all items in Fiction See all items by CANIN, ETHAN.
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