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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: 3.20 · 6,205 ratings · 1,147 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
Carry the One
3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 5,532 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
Aquamarine
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
Lucky in the Corner: A Novel
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
Seven Moves
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
The Latchkey Kids
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991
Reader's Guide Seven Moves/...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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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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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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“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…”
Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

“You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.”
Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?”
Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

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