Carrie Brown





Carrie Brown

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Carrie Brown is the author of five novels – her most recent novel is The Rope Walk (Pantheon, 2007) – and a collection of short stories, The House on Belle Isle. Her other novels include Rose’s Garden, Lamb in Love, The Hatbox Baby and Confinement.

She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and The Great Lakes Book Award. She has also twice won the Library of Virginia’s Fiction Award, and her novel The Rope Walk was chosen as the All Iowa Reads Selection by the Iowa Public Library. Her novels have appeared on the Best Books of the Year lists from The Christian Science Monitor and The Chicago Tribune.

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Average rating: 3.49 · 899 ratings · 211 reviews · 14 distinct works
The Rope Walk: A Novel
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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Lamb in Love
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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The Hatbox Baby
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Rose's Garden
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 108 ratings5 editions
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Confinement
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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The House on Belle Isle and...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002
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Lots O' Riddles
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005
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Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Wome...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002
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Dessert Lover's Cookbook
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008
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