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Carol Anshaw

Goodreads Author

Born

Grosse Pointe, Michigan, The United States

Website

http://carolanshaw.wordpress.com

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Gay & Lesbian

Influences

Shirley Hazzard, Don DeLillo, Alice Munro, Cormac McCarthy ...more

Member Since

October 2008

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Carol Anshaw is an American novelist and short story writer. Her books include Carry the One, Lucky in the Corner, Seven Moves and Aquamarine. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories in 1994, 1998, and 2012. She has an MFA from 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, Right after the Weather, is forthcoming in October from Simon & Schuster.

Anshaw is also a painter. She divides her time between Chicago and Amsterdam

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Average rating: 3.19 · 12,861 ratings · 2,047 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Carry the One 3.12 avg rating — 10,113 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aquamarine: A Literary Olympic Swimmer's Lesbian Love Story Across Three Parallel Lives 3.61 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 1992 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right After the Weather 2.99 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky in the Corner 3.56 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Moves: A Tightly Told Women's Literary Mystery – A Therapist's Search for Her Vanished Lover in Morocco 3.56 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Speaker of the Language 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler by Carol Anshaw (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Simon & Schuster (Editor), Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Ohio Review Issue #10 by Carol Anshaw (Goodreads Author), George Bilgere (Goodreads Author), Todd Boss (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Reader's Guide: Seven Moves & Aquamarine liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…”
― Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

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“...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

tags: funny, religion, women-s-rights

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“But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.”
― Carol Anshaw, Carry the One

tags: family, friendship, life, universe

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