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Ethan Canin is the author of six books, including the story collections Emperor of the Air and The Palace Thief and the novels For Kings and Planets and Carry Me Across the Water. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan. He is also a physician.
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America America
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is... Read more >
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The Palace Thief
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $13.95
“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
–The Washington Post
“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken. In “Accountant,” a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $13.95
“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
–The Washington Post
“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have taken. In “Accountant,” a... Read more >
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Carry Me Across the Water
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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America America
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $44.95
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $44.95
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents... Read more >
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Carry Me Across the Water
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $12.50
“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... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $12.50
“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... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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America America
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $25.00
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $25.00
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents... Read more >
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For Kings and Planets
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
Ethan Canin, the acclaimed author of America America and The Palace Thief, is “one of the best fiction writers of his generation” (The Miami Herald). For Kings and Planets follows the lives of two young men and the woman they both love. Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from Missouri... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
Ethan Canin, the acclaimed author of America America and The Palace Thief, is “one of the best fiction writers of his generation” (The Miami Herald). For Kings and Planets follows the lives of two young men and the woman they both love. Orno Tarcher arrives in New York City from Missouri... Read more >
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Carry Me Across the Water
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $14.00
“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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $14.00
“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... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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America America
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $15.00
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is... Read more >
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