Ethan Canin

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president. Before …

“Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”–The Washington Post“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus–and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet people struggling to understand themselves and the unexpected turns their lives have …

For Kings and Planets is a 1999 novel by Ethan Canin centering on two college students at Columbia University and following them through their intertwined lives.

Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin. It is an elegiac novel that tells the story of August Kleinman, a 78-year-old former Pittsburgh brewery owner who remembers episodes from his life—from his escape from Nazi Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in …

Two brothers with seemingly opposite personalities follow different paths through life until the paths converge in a sudden process of self-discovery

A bountiful collection of previously unpublished stories-by Julia Alvarez, Frederick Barthelme, Michael Chabon, Alice Fulton, Mary Gaitskill, David Haynes, Gary Krist, Jill McCorkle, Melanie Rae Thon, and ten others-whose royalties benefit Share Our Strength’s antihunger programs.