Carter Clay (49 page)
Authors: Elizabeth Evans
ELIZABETH EVANS
has received many grants and fellowship for her writing, including an NEA Fellowship, the James Michener Fellowship, and fellowship at Yaddo and MacDowell. She is the author of
The Blue Hour
and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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“Evans deftly examines culture's preoccupation with crime and punishment and who will be redeemed and at what price. . . . A fine writer.”
â
Denver Post
“From the wreckage of a senseless hit-and-run collision, Evans salvages a brave yet delicate novel that succeeds beautifully despite the unlikeliness of its plot. . . . Evans's provocative, exclamatory prose sallies forth with rhetorical devicesâpuns, arch questions, italic emphasisâthat bring her contemporary Lorrie Moore to mind.”
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Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
“Agonizing, uncompromising southern gothic that glares unflinchingly at the cultural motifs of sin and redemption as they reassemble the shattered life of a burned-out Vietnam vet. . . . A masterful story of simple people trying to understand God's inhumanity to man.”
âKirkus Reviews
(starred review)
“
Carter Clay
is thrilling in its enormous ambition and intelligence. Elizabeth Evans is a fearless writer. After reading this novel, I'm convinced that there's nothing that she can't do.”
âAnn Patchett
“Beautiful, mysterious, and superbly written,
Carter Clay
is an enthralling and profound meditation on the accidents of fate that can often cause life to slip beyond our control.”
âOscar Hijuelos
“In this absorbing tale of sin, suffering, and redemption, at once poignant and grotesque, Elizabeth Evans has proved herself worthyâas few writers doâof comparison with Flannery O'Connor. But hers is the more generous vision, I think, and the more compassionate.”
âNancy Mairs
Locomotion
The Blue Hour
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1999 by Harper-Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
CARTER CLAY
. Copyright © 1999 by Elizabeth Evans. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Perennial edition published 2000.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Evans, Elizabeth, 1951â
Carter Clay : a novel / Elizabeth Evans. â 1st ed.
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p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-019265-8
EPub Edition July 2015 ISBN 9780062434401
1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961â1975âVeteransâFiction. I. Title. PS3555.V2152C37 1999
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