Carry Yourself Back to Me - Softcover

Reed, Deborah

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9780547848020: Carry Yourself Back to Me
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0547848021 ISBN 13: 9780547848020
Publisher: Mariner Books, 2012

Synopsis

A beautifully written, thoroughly engaging novel. Deborah Reed's prose is lyrical, elegant, and vivid-she is a standout among new American novelists. -Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to HomeFamed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. Soon, however, this quiet, small-town existence-far from recording studios, ardent fans, and affairs of the heart-comes crashing down around her. A violent murder connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart and forces Annie to shore up her loyalties and uproot profound disappointments from her distant past. Like a fine and forlorn love ballad, the gifted, conflicted Annie lulls the reader into a journey through love and loss that mines the mysterious, and, at times, paradoxical rhythms of the human heart". Deborah Reed has written here a novel peopled with real, flesh-and-bone characters-men and women both as good and delightfully flawed as our best friends, our spouses, ourselves. And the icing on this cake is Reed's lucid, lovely prose". -Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, author of This Life She's Chosen and Swimming with Strangers

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About the Author

DEBORAH REED is the author of the novels Olivay; Things We Set On Fire, which sold over 100,000 copies in its first six months; and Carry Yourself Back to Me, a Best Book of 2011 Amazon Editors' Pick. She has written two thrillers, A Small Fortune and Fortune's Deadly Descent, under her pen name, Audrey Braun. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Poets & Writers and the Literarian. Deborah holds an MFA in creative writing (fiction) and is codirector of the Black Forest Writing Seminars at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She lives in Manzanita, Oregon.

From the Back Cover

A beautifully written, thoroughly engaging novel. Deborah Reed s prose is lyrical, elegant, and vivid she is a standout among new American novelists. Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and Drinking Closer to Home
Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. Soon, however, this quiet, small-town existence far from recording studios, ardent fans, and affairs of the heart comes crashing down around her. A violent murder connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart and forces Annie to shore up her loyalties and uproot profound disappointments from her distant past. Like a fine and forlorn love ballad, the gifted, conflicted Annie lulls the reader into a journey through love and loss that mines the mysterious, and, at times, paradoxical rhythms of the human heart.
Deborah Reed has written here a novel peopled with real, flesh-and-bone characters men and women both as good and delightfully flawed as our best friends, our spouses, ourselves. And the icing on this cake is Reed s lucid, lovely prose. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, author of This Life She s Chosen and Swimming with Strangers

Deborah Reed comes from a long line of storytellers and musicians and finds creative inspiration in the composition of alt-country, folk, and homespun goods. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she also writes suspense fiction under the name of Audrey Braun.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0547848021
ISBN 13 
9780547848020
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Rating
  • 3.65 out of 5 stars
    1,930 ratings by Goodreads

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