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Carol Anshaw

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Carol Anshaw (born March 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her books include Lucky in the Corner, Seven Moves and Aquamarine. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories in 1994 and 1998. She acquired her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts (1992). She has won a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, an NEA Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Carl Sandburg Award and Society of Midland Authors Award. Her newest novel, Carry the One, is forthcoming in March 2012 from Simon & Schuster.

Anshaw teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at SAIC, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is also a painter.


Average rating: 3.31 · 1,849 ratings · 418 reviews · 9 distinct works
Carry the One
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 1,378 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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Aquamarine
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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Lucky in the Corner: A Novel
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Seven Moves
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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The Latchkey Kids
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
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I think this is a truly great book, better even than wind-up bird chronicle. the only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is that the end stretches on too long. 50 pages shorter and it would have been perfect.
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Herself When She's Missing by Sarah Terez Rosenblum
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This is love as darkness, passion that hollows one out and leaves only a husk behind. If they make a movie of this, Leonard Cohen will sing the theme song. A compelling read for anyone who has ever fallen victim to this particular form of insanity. W...more
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Naked by David Sedaris
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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1984 by George Orwell
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…”
Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

“He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.”
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