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    Ethan Canin

    Carry Me Across the Water (Random House) Ethan Canin offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of their parents...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Aug 23, 2001 • 30m Listen

    Carry Me Across the Water

    (Random House)

    Ethan Canin, probably the gentlest writer of his generation, affably offers his ideas about fatherhood, memory and the betrayal children inevitably feel at the hands of their parents.

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