Ethan Canin, Author . Random $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-45679-7
August Kleinman, the protagonist of Canin's (For Kings and Planets) latest novel, is 78 years old, rich and wise from a life filled with accomplishments and heartache. Yet as this spare, beautifully realized story opens, he is marveling at the...
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Ethan Canin, Author . Random $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-45680-3
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Ethan Canin's new novel is a powerful lament that haunts us like a latter-day ghost of The Great Gatsby
. Like Gatsby, it deals with an orgiastic rupture in the American dream. If F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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Ethan Canin, Author Random House Inc $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-41962-4
Canin, whose short-story collection Emperor of the Air was justly feted, as his novel Blue River was not, here offers four brilliant longer stories, each seamlessly structured and with prose and characters to linger over. The book's ostensible theme
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Ethan Canin, Author Picador USA $12 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-11930-0
The paperback release of Canin's thoroughly engaging short-story collection-a PW bestseller and one of PW's best books of 1994-marks the launch of the Picador imprint in the U.S. (Jan.)
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Ethan Canin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-395-42976-1
Canin's outstanding debut, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, gathers nine stories originally published in the Atlantic, Esquire and Ploughshares, among others; two were selected for the Best American Short Stories 1985 and 1986. At...
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Ethan Canin, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-395-49854-5
This eloquent story of two men destined to become ``good brother'' and ``bad brother'' is an ambitious but ultimately disappointing novel by the author of the acclaimed 1988 collection Emperor of the Air. Edward, a successful California...
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Ethan Canin, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-679-41963-1
Many qualities that make a novel masterful are present in Canin's fourth book: richly nuanced characterizations, a sensuous sense of place, easy dialogue, controlled pacing and a story that is a classic parable of the human condition. The narrative...
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Ethan Canin. Random, $28 (576p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6826-5
The mysteries of higher mathematics and the even deeper mysteries of the human heart are the unlikely themes of Canin’s (America America) novel. With stunning assurance and elegant, resonant prose, Canin follows the life of Milo Andret, who is both...
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Ethan Canin, Author, Robertson Dean, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Random House Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-6849-7
Canin's marvelous tale of Corey Sifter, a young working-class man who goes to work for a powerful family and ends up entangled in a political debacle, is wonderfully realized by Robertson Dean, whose deep bass tone is at once powerful and...
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