| Carry Me Across the Water | |
| Author: | Ethan Canin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Release Date: | 2001 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 206 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-679-45679-1 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 21 |
| Congress: | PS3553.A495 C37 2001 |
| Oclc: | 45284641 |
Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin.[1]
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 Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in industrial Pittsburgh.[2] Both the Boston Globe and The Times selected it as a Best Book of 2001.