Carry The One

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 253 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. A Family Has To Live With The Memory Of A Car Load Of Drunken Guests After A Wedding Crashes And Kills A Girl On A Dark Country Lane.

Publishers Description: Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmens wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment. As one character says, When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.� Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than wed expect. As they seek redemption through addiction, social justice, and art, Anshaws characters reflect our deepest pain and longings, our joys, and our transcendent moments of understanding. This wise, wry, and erotically charged novel derives its power and appeal from the authors exquisite use of language; her sympathy for her recognizable, very flawed characters; and her persuasive belief in the transforming forces of time and love.

ISBN: 9781451636888