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Carol Anshaw
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Carol Anshaw

Carol Anshaw is the author of Carry the One, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She lives in Chicago.

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Carry the One will be released on October 30, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 16, 2012
Carry the One will be released on March 06, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 06, 2012
Carry the One is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 06, 2012
Brightcove:
Carry the One
Jan 20, 2012
Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler will be released on January 03, 2012 in eBook
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Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler is now available in eBook
Jan 03, 2012
Brightcove:
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Bay Area Reporter, May 3, 2012
...Carry the One (Simon and Schuster) by novelist and painter Carol Anshaw is one of the most favorably reviewed novels of 2012. In the novel, Anshaw's fourth, a group of friends, including siblings Carmen, Alice and Nick, are involved in...
Concord Monitor, April 22, 2012
...The plot of Carol Anshaw's new novel would seem to be about the ramifications of a single, tragic event. What it really is about is narcissism in its most extreme forms. Following Carmen...
Advertiser Democrat, April 21, 2012
...new books: Fiction "Cat’s Claw," Susan Wittig Albert; "The Dressmaker," Kate Alcott; "Carry the One," Carol Anshaw; "Death of a Kingfisher," M.C. Beaton; Berenson, Alex – "The Shadow Patro," Alex Berenson; "Agony of the Leaves," Laura Childs;...
Christian Science Monitor, April 17, 2012
...R. Martin, Bantam 13. Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James, Knopf 14. Carry the One, by Carol Anshaw, S&S 15. Defending Jacob, by William Landay, Delacorte ON THE RISE: 17. The Cove, by Ron Rash, Ecco Press Rash's lyrical, heart-rending novel of a...
Toledoblade.com, April 15, 2012
...stoned, drunk, sleepy, and distracted by lust, strikes a 10-year-old girl on a country road and kills her. Carol Anshaw's masterful novel, Carry the One, recounts both the horror of the accident and the way it reverberates in a cluster of lives,...
Newsday, April 13, 2012
...by MARION WINIK Special to Newsday CARRY THE ONE, by Carol Anshaw. Simon & Schuster, 253 pp., $25. The long shadow cast by the excesses of the 1980s has been the subject of several excellent recent novels, including Michelle Huneven's...
Christian Science Monitor, April 10, 2012
...Pemberley, by P.D. James, Knopf 13. The Expats, by Chris Pavone, Crown 14. Carry the One, by Carol Anshaw, S&S 15. The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday ON THE RISE: 18. The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan, Reagan Arthur Books Rogan's novel of...
Glencoe News.com, March 13, 2012
...Mayes discusses and signs The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen. March 21, 7 p.m.: Carol Anshaw signs her new novel, Carry the One. March 28, 6:30 p.m.: Nonfiction Book Club will discuss Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How...
Highland Park News, March 13, 2012
...Mayes discusses and signs The Tuscan Sun Cookbook: Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen. March 21, 7 p.m.: Carol Anshaw signs her new novel, Carry the One. March 28, 6:30 p.m.: Nonfiction Book Club will discuss Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How...
New York Times, March 12, 2012
...Carol Anshaws beautifully observed new novel, Carry the One, begins with a terrible accident in the summer of 1983: very late at night, after Carmen and Matts wedding, a car filled with some seriously stoned and sleepy wedding guests turns onto a...
AllVoices, March 12, 2012
...Carol Anshaw's beautifully observed new novel, Carry the One, begins with a terrible accident in the summer of 1983: very late at night, after Carmen and Matt's wedding, a...
New York Times, March 12, 2012
...In Carol Anshaw’s novel, a fatal accident becomes a lasting and looming shadow in the lives of the friends and lovers involved...
Boston Globe, March 8, 2012
...Patricia Briggs (Fair Game) reads at 5 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre (free tickets at Harvard Coop) Carol Anshaw (Carry the One) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books Sarah Braunstein (The Sweet Relief of Missing Children) and Audrey Schulman (Three...
Chicago Tribune, March 8, 2012
...[ ED's note: Technical difficulties dogged our attempted live chat with author Carol Anshaw to discuss her new novel, "Carry the One." (An excerpt from the book entitled "Emma Goldman's Grave" appeared Feb. 26 as part of the Printers Row Journal...