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A truly gifted short-story writer, Ethan Canin faltered when it came to his second novel, the turgid For Kings and Planets. This time around, though, the author has found an ingenious solution to his problems with the longer form. Carry Me Across the Water is essentially a book of short stories posing as a novel, and here's the surprise--it's pretty effective. The protagonist, August Kleinman, is a wealthy old man looking back on the span of his life. He recalls his early youth in Vienna as the son of a cultured Jewish family; his flight to America in the 1930s with his mother; his war years in the Pacific; his career as the beer king of Pittsburgh; his love for his wife and alienation from his children. This may sound relatively straightforward. Yet Canin shatters this portrait into a series of compelling vignettes, each rearing up unexpectedly and without the crude restraints of chronology.
This format of random flashbacks allows the author to handle a sprawling novel--and a complex life. At the same time, these compartmentalized moments are kept from seeming too small by means of an expansive prose style, which sometimes suggest Mark Helprin in high gear: "Downriver he could see the fierce furnaces throwing blue-black smoke into the air, the crude ore of the land being transformed by human ingenuity into girders and beams that were then floated downstream to ports and train yards and trucking depots, a vast delta of commerce that fanned out from there to all the great hubs of the earth." Throughout, Canin tempers his grandiloquence with a short-story writer's sensitivity to the details of character, and accomplishes exactly what he intended: an involving montage of 20th-century life. --Claire Dederer
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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 a long and bountiful life, his resolution of a haunting encounter with a Japanese soldier during World War Two finally illuminates, at the deepest levels, the way authentic lives truly unfold. From the writer hailed as “the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation” (Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio) comes this “exquisitely modulated short novel” (Los Angeles Times), which “eases its silky-smooth way into a reader’s consciousness even as it plumbs the depths” (Newsday).
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A young boy escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate, August's instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels. This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America's finest writers.
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Ethereally Stunning (If a novel can be described that way).......2007-02-03
Canin, a writing professor at the University of Iowa, reminds me of Richard Yates in that I refer to each of them as a writer's writer. Both of these writers have very different strengths (and their lives have other points of intersection), but each has a way of producing work that is technically wonderful, while at the same time being an entertaining story. In this instance, Canin weaves a story about August Kleinman, a Jewish man who escaped the Holocaust and fought oversees in the Pacific. The story weaves August at multiple time periods and we jump from perspective to perspective seamlessly. That's the strongest aspect of this novel - the way Canin takes us to different points in August's life, while maintaining our complete and utter belief that this is the same person at different developmental stages in each instance. Another way to look at this novel is through its "tightness." Canin does a great job of linking things together and of providing closure to almost every single detail that he includes. This novel seems like it could have been written in two days or two years.
I highly recommend the book to people who enjoy reading technically saavy material. Rarely will you find work that is successful at pushing itself stylistically without compromising the plotline. Buy it and enjoy.
Return to Form.......2004-05-17
After the major disappointment of For Gods and Planets, Canin again displays a mastery of his craft in Carry Me Across the Water. What a pleasure to find a novel that can be comfortably read in a couple of days yet leaves a deep emotional impression. I disagree with the reviewer who complained about the form, which uses flashbacks and cuts between various scenes in the protagonist's life; there's nothing confusing about it, and it works beautifully. I do agree that Canin has brought to bear his skill as a short story writer in conveying the essence of a good novel without the tedium of endless descriptions and meandering plot lines. For those looking for a complex interweaving of many well-developed characters, look elsewhere; this is the story of one man's life, in which all other characters are supporting, existing only through the lens of his aging eyes in order to help us understand how he feels as he approaches the end of his life, and why. Those reviewers who found the man unsympathetic perhaps are just not as familiar with their own irritable side as they hopefully will be eventually. I found the portrait very true to my experience. Canin seems to do much better with older characters; his young people tend to be two-dimensional, but he has a wonderful grasp of the subtleties of the minds of people much older than he is himself.
After For Gods and Planets I wondered whether Canin was capable of writing a good novel. As I finished the last page of this one, I said out loud to myself, "A good book."
An intriguing tale of regret and redemption.......2004-05-06
August Kleinman is a a man in his 70s who has fully experienced life, from his escape out of Germany as a child to his service in WWII to his lucrative career as a business entrepreneur. Now, his beloved wife has passed away, and Augie struggles with maintaining a relationship with his son and new grandson while also trying to come to terms with his guilt about past mistakes. Author Canin skillfully weaves stories of the past--Augie's experiences as a soldier in Japan, the progression of his marriage--with those of the present--namely, Augie's interactions with his remaining family and a return trip to Japan. Although the frequent changes in setting could have been disorienting, Canin keeps the reader grounded with use of simple yet enchanting language. Slowly but surely, the story of Augie's life enfolds, coming to a satisfying conclusion while still leaving the reader with questions about Augie's exact fate. Sweet without being overly sentimental, this is a short novel with a wide appeal.
a bad book by a good author.......2004-02-19
Usually Ethan Canin is a wonderful writer. This book, however, is not up to his other work.
Perhaps it's because the reader can't ever gain enough sympathy for the protagonist--August Kleinman is cardboard cutout of a man who cheats, lies, amasses wealth, tries (improbably) to atone for a past sin and yet, is unpleasant to almost everyone in his daily life--(except when the person happens to be a lovely young Latina who brings out his 'protective' side-- to whom he makes a gesture that seems predictable and silly.)
The reader is clearly supposed to see August as a world weary, crotchety 'ole coot, with a sad history behind him (that disallows good manners) but a heart of gold. It just doesn't work.
He just comes off as irritating and shallow.
The device of making him a checkout-bagger is condescending and unreal. He doesn't have enough kindness or dimension to make him believable in this role. (Except--of course--his kindness to the aforementioned pretty lady.)
All in all, a surprisingly bad book from a good writer.
Profound Subtlety.......2003-11-18
In his Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin enables us to see the profound and indescribable depths of humanity through the most unlikely means. With a non-linear plotline, a snapshot-style narrative, and a protagonist who isn't always the most likeable of men, Canin slowly pulls back the curtain on the life of August Kleinman and a number of life's crucial themes.
Unlike many stories that struggle with the inner depths of a life, this is a masterpiece in reduction. By juxtaposing a few brief incidents in August's life, Canin alludes to the many great themes of life without losing us in the inconsequential details. I've noticed from other reviews here that some people feel as though Canin has given us a series of disconnected short stories rather than something complete. To a minimal extent that is true... much like it is true that all of our lives are really a series of seemingly disconnected events, and a focused plotline is something imposed by writers to make sense of it all. Canin shows us that, if you look closely enough, you might be able to grasp at the depths of life, even without the traditional narrative thread.
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- Early Ellroy is Fine, but the master of crime fiction ages like a fine wine.
- Contrived but a lot to appreciate, too
- Not the best of Ellroy
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- Disappointing and unbelievable
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Because the Night
James Ellroy
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A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle.
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Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. A thinking cop in a brutal world, hunting down monsters has, for him, gone from occupational hazard to obsession. In Because the Night , a hero cop named Jacob Herzog has disappeared, and a multiple homicide in which the killer used a pre-Civil War revolver remains unsolved. As Lloyd Hopkins pieces the puzzle together, he uncovers a startling trail of arcane secrets and madness--all leading to a mastermind psychotic . . . This is Ellroy at his best: stark, uncompromising, and exquisite.
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Early Ellroy is Fine, but the master of crime fiction ages like a fine wine. .......2007-01-17
This early work of Ellroy's shows the tremendous talent that will blossom in later novels like The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, Black Dahlia, and even his first novel Clandestine shows even more early brillance than what is served up here is Because The Night, a must for Ellroy buffs, but if you are new or just being introduced to James Ellroy start off with Clandestine!
Contrived but a lot to appreciate, too.......2006-05-11
Ellroy is clearly an intellectual writer. His vocabulary, his grasp of psychological profiles and various references to culture all speak to that. His writing is blunt and honest--no touchy-feely here, and that adds impact to the novel. He crafts a solid story, that is, he remembers where he's going and where he's been (might seem obvious but lots of modern writers fail in this area). And in Hopkins he crafts an intriguing protagonist.
The biggest problem here is the contrived plot. It's as if Ellroy tried way too hard when he didn't need to--his authorial skills don't require an over-the-top storyline. At times it goes so far as to feel like it's a script for an Austin Powers movie. Just as bad as the contrivance is the motivations for the antagonist and the flock of idiots who follow him. But the clincher for me was how Hopkins finally sees it all at once, going from not even a suspicion to a complete understanding of all that has happened.
Another issue for me is the decision to use two points-of-view. Of course this is a very common approach by writers and with some, like Stephen King, the antagonist's POV is what draws you in. I would argue that for every novel it enhances, it detracts from several more. There is only one mystery here, and that is, how will the showdown come. We know Hopkins is a serial character and that Ellroy won't kill him off, so the suspense is completely absent. Try to imagine this book if we are only in Hopkins head and it improves instantly. I know it's fun to explore the psyche of serial killers but that should be weighed against keeping the reader titillated.
Not the best of Ellroy.......2004-08-10
If you like crime novels and you haven't read any Ellroy yet (what were you waiting for?)you will probably enjoy this book. If you have already read the LA Quartet or the American tabloid series then you will find this book is not in the same league: the plot is less coherent, a bit naif sometimes. In any case Ellroy will always be far ahead its rivals. And the language is almost as tough as usual.
OPUS FOUR.......2001-09-05
Second novel of the Lloyd Hopkins saga, BECAUSE OF THE NIGHT has been published in 1984. Like in BLOOD ON THE MOON, James Ellroy has adopted in this book two points of view, Lloyd's and John Havilland's, the killer.
Even if the twists of BECAUSE OF THE NIGHT are highly improbable, the novel still stays as intense as it was when I first read it seventeen years ago (gasp!). Ellroy was then one of the first writers to introduce serial killers in his books and was already a master in describing the psychology of his characters.
What strikes me the most now is the evident relation between the mad psychiatrist Havilland and the writer Ellroy. The symptoms of Havilland's madness are very similar to the creative process of the writer. Havilland tries to recreate traumatic scenes of his childhood by directing "live" the poor souls that have fallen in his trap. How not to recognize here the endless efforts of James Ellroy in order to exorcize his mother's murder books after books ?
So if you have the curiosity to go beyond the main argument of BECAUSE OF THE NIGHT, you will soon find out that this book is not only a unique opportunity given to the reader to analyze Lloyd Hopkins thanks John Havilland's psychological skill but is also a terrifying trip through James Ellroy's own obsessions.
A book to rediscover.
Disappointing and unbelievable.......1999-06-02
Sometimes a story is only as good as its villan, and in "Because the Night" the villan is totally unbelievable: A renowned criminal psychiatrist, who is also a psychotic, a talented thief, a drug dealer and a cult leader/manipulator. His motive: the acquisition of data? Please.
I still enjoyed Hopkins as a character, but the whole premis of the book was strained, and there was no opportunity for the main character to really shine. Overall, a weak sister to Ellroy's other Hopkins stories, which are in turn pale comparisons to his other works like "LA Confidential" and "Black Dahlia."
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This digital document is an article from Photo Trade News, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1925 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Because it's ladies' night .... relationship-building, information-sharing, and a woman's touch to storefront decor--the fairer sex is taking over an increasing share of the photo retail industry and using its unique talents to a profitable advantage.
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- Love is Hate, but the Flower Knows
- Chthon-Another great Book!!
- Almost as great as the entire Xanth series!
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Chthon was Piers Anthony's first published novel in 1967, written over the course of seven years. He started it when he was in the US Army, so it has a long prison sequence that is reminiscent of that experience, being dark and grim. It features Aton Five, a space man who commits the crime of falling in love with the dangerous alluring Minionette and is therefore condemned to death in the subterranean prison of Chthon. It uses flashbacks to show how he came to know the Minionette, and flashforwards to show how he dealt with her after his escape from prison. The author regards this as perhaps the most intricately structured novel the science fantasy genre has seen. It was a contender for awards, but not a winner.
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Great book.......2005-02-15
If you're looking for just another book by Anthony, that's the wrong address! Anthony`s books usually are light read, without any comlexities of caracters or plot. This one is nothing like this! It's really a mature book (altough first one?). Just great read! I highly reccomend it...
Love is Hate, but the Flower Knows.......2003-02-10
Anthony arrived on the science fiction scene with quite a bang with this novel. So much of a bang that it was nominated for the 1968 Hugo award, losing out on the award itself only to another truly brilliant work, Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light.
Anthony introduces a multitude of ideas in this work: a flower that shows whether or not your significant other truly loves you, a galaxy-spanning `message' that kills humans in its path by hypothermia, a naturally formed inorganic based consciousness, a type of grub that quite literally eats absolutely everything. But the most significant idea is a genetically modified type of human, the minionettes, all physically identical and the very picture of absolute female perfection, who have their emotional circuits inverted, where the kindest thing you can do to them is hate, abuse, deride, and punish them.
Anton Five, knowing nothing of her true nature, has the misfortune to fall in love with one of these minionettes, a love that is an obsession, a mixture of real love and conflicted hate, as the object of his emotions, after only three brief encounters, goes to space. It becomes his mission in life to track her down, even at the expense of his farm and a rejection of freely offered true love by a daughter of the family of Four. And due to this obsession, he eventually is sent to the prison planet Chthon, where the prison is the naturally formed caves and tubes formed by ancient volcanic action and that no one has ever escaped from. Within this prison are real monsters, truly horrifying and very unique, many of which are seen only from offstage or half-seen, and the very indistinctness this lends to these creatures adds to their effect. Some of the images of this section gave me nightmares for years after the first time I read this book.
Anton is a fully delineated character, not very likeable - in fact he's amoral, selfish, a loner, single-minded, and at least something of a psychotic. But there are occasional glimpses of a different man hiding inside, one capable of giving and receiving love, who knows pity and can empathize with other's misfortunes. The story, outside of all the fantastic ideas so casually tossed around, is really about his development into a fully rational human who can allow his emotions full sway when appropriate.
The story construction is rather unique, using both flash-backs and flash-forwards from his time in prison. This is deliberately done, as there are a set of parallels/contrasts between the actions in the prison and the actions at other times in Anton's life, which help illustrate the man and his changes. This construction has the disadvantage of lessening the suspense, but the added meaning given by this structure more than compensates for this. At least part of this book can be viewed as an allegory for the travels of a man through the stages of life, and Anthony buries quite a bit of symbolism inside his creations.
The power of this book resides in the changes Anton goes through and its tremendous imagery coupled with some truly different and unique ideas. Be prepared to put as much effort into reading and comprehending this book as it would take for a classic 'literary' novel - this book is a far cry from the grade-B space-operas of yesteryear.
--- Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
Chthon-Another great Book!!.......2000-10-24
Piers Anthony was one of my first fantasy reads. I read his Robot Adept and had to have all the books on the series, plus a lot of others from other series! It stole me away from romance and mystery, being far more interesting! From his novels, I crossed the threshold into fantasy and sci-fi, reading many good writers' works. Chthon is a cut above the rest, despite it being a first work and I applaud an already celebrated author for yet another great work of fiction!
Almost as great as the entire Xanth series!.......1999-11-09
Though the Xanth series was (im almost certain) one of the first series that any one ever read on this author, i found that the immense amount of sheer brain capacity needed to assertain every little metaphorical and ever single sub-based plot screwing in this book was alot more "mature" then from his previous more childesh books. Though they are not childesh in content literature, only really in characters. I have found that in most books he has incredible amount of beutifully puzzling puns and writing that i wish to assertain one day, al in all i definetly rate this book up there. If anyone else is interested , check out Barry B. Longyear, He wirtes an incredible fiction called the Godbox although it is quite rare and difficult to get ahold of , i suppose you can start at your local library. Anywho , thanks and hopefuly Piers pulls through with a few more good books.
Piers Anthony's First...and Best Book.......1999-10-19
Wow. Incredible. For his first book, this is his best by far. Having first read only the Xanth books, and then the entire Bio of a Space Tyrant series, I was expecting another kind of kiddish book with adult overtones. But no, this very adult oriented book was way beyond my expecatations, the plot twists and turns are amazing. Always gripping, Piers Anthony at his best.
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CHTHON
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** Hugo runnerup **; one of the 5 best novels of the year. Aton, child of the sun, was condemned to the ruby-dark mines of Chthon--prison planet, underground world, from which there was no escape. His crime? He loved a minionette. These half-legendary creatues were feared and loathed on all the worlds of mankind--but none would say why. There was no escape from Chthon--neither from Chthon the labrynthine planet, nor from Chthon the superhuman intelligence that penetrated the minds of all who lived there. But the minionette called, and Aton would respond...
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Kevin Cade is a man with the single most bizarre childhood ever experienced. Orphaned in the wilderness at age eight, he and a befriended bear cub find an alien clue to his future destiny. A destiny which will take him to deeds of heroism and beyond; to another world of beautifully constructed people who themselves have been orphaned by their "makers". These find themselves facing an extinction that only Cade can avert. His world, his people, his destiny,...and then there's Earth. How far can it go?
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Buy This Book.......2007-08-09
Finally a sci-fi book that truly is different. The way the story pulls you in, I could not put this book down. I highly recomend you get this book and let it pull you into it's universe!
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- The Genesis of Chthon
- a differnt look at the super hero life
- A look a the life of heroes
- THE GENESIS OF CHTHON
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The Genesis of CHTHON
Norrin J. Powell
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Sam, Cyndi, Norrin, Nanci, Wade, and Rachel are best friends. Despite differences in ethnicity, economic background, or even cultural diversity, all came together and cemented unbreakable bonds. These bonds' foundations were built on a common affection for one another, but these six did not come together simply by chance. Each was born with natural abilities, powers, or gifts above and beyond that of the average man or woman. These unusual characteristics united the six all the more. Utilizing their individual and unique abilities, they each strove to make their 1989 home city of Baltimore a safer place for “the good people.” Facing many obstacles in that determination, the group found themselves up against everything from a cunning, self-serving crime boss, to corrupt individuals in government and law enforcement, and even an entirely new race of beings, unlike anything they'd ever encountered before, that evoked fear and terror at a glance. They faced their struggles head on, but along the way learned that power can be veiled in various different vessels, and that, at times, lines between good and evil may not be simply blurred, but altogether out of focus. In the end the lessons learned are immeasurable in significance, but at what cost?
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The Genesis of Chthon.......2007-01-10
The book is well written for a first time author. It builds characters well and breeds anticipation for the next volume.
a differnt look at the super hero life.......2007-01-01
this is a book that goes beyond the comic book genere of superman an x-men. it also shows the dark side when hero's fall.
A look a the life of heroes.......2006-12-02
Heroes are just like the rest of us, they have families and lives outside of the spandex. Mr. Powell's book gives us a peak at these hidden lives while at the same time giving us the action and adventure we come to expect from heroes.
THE GENESIS OF CHTHON.......2006-10-20
GET READY TO DICH YOUR XMEN BOOKS AND MAGS. THIS IS BETTER THEN ANY XMEN COMIC. GENEIS OF CHTHON IS MORE ABOUT WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE PLUS THE WRITER ADDED IN ALL THE GOOD FIGHTS INBETWEEEN.
YOU KNOW WHAT, BUY IT AND YOU'LL SEE... TO MUCH TO LIST...HAVE FUN
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Brought Me Out of the Closet.......2004-12-28
I used to be ashamed of being gay, in many ways, I still am. But this book helped me embrace my inner 'mo. The other day, I was brave enough to discuss a homoerotic fantasy in public! Namely the one [...] In other words...I'm Positively Gay!
a feel-good book!.......2002-10-19
The title of the book says it all. Notice how "controversy" or "queer" are not in the title; it's neither just a debate or some postmodern radicalism. This book is best for gay men and lesbians just coming out. It's all about being positive about supporting gay rights and being a part of the community and coming out to straights. I particularly liked this book for its section on lesbians and gay men of color. This was a nice, easily read anthology.
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