The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Ethan Canin's new novel is about endings, the heartbreak that comes with them and the hope that they engender. It is also his best work to date, a lament for what was and an embracing of what remains.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Canin's great political novel has shades of Edward Kennedy's story America, America By Ethan Canin Random House / 458 pages / $27 L ate fall 1971. Liberal Democratic Sen. Henry Bonwiller of Upstate New York is challenging Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, the favorite in the race for the presidential nomination.
The Great Seduction (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
About halfway through Ethan Canin's political new novel, America America, there's talk of what makes a great American president. The discussion hangs upon Isaiah Berlin's distinction between two sorts of thinkers -- his fox and his hedgehog. "The fox knows...
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Ethan Canin is most recently the author of America America. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Examining his miserable relationship with America. Author: Ethan Canin Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Canin: I wish I could act as if there was something more intentional. I’m a little tired here. Correspondent: Oh, that’s okay. Canin: Perhaps there was a little more intentionality on [...]...
The Great Seduction (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The FT tells us that America America, Ethan Canin's new novel, "pierces" the "great American fiction" that the country doesn't have a class structure. The novel, apparently, is "obsessed with by the fetish objects of the American elite": "We are...
Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
America America: A Novel by Ethan Canin I feel almost goofy attempting to write a short review of a book by an author of the reputation enjoyed by Ethan Canin. He hardly needs the publicity. His book is all over...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Ethan Canin, best-selling writer, was an animated speaker at Wednesday evening's "Words & Wine," a new series in Seattle that aims to showcase authors in a cocktail party atmosphere. The event drew raves from attendees, as well as Canin.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The town of Saline in western New York State is Ethan Canin's setting for this absorbing, intelligent novel of class, power and politics. Since the late 19th century, its fortunes have been tied to the Metarey family. Founding father Eoghan was a self-made man and vicious capitalist who nevertheless endowed the town. His son, Liam, liberal, humane and of leftist sympathies, is regarded as Saline's...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Lionel Shriver reviews America America by Ethan Canin
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ethan Canin's new novel, "America America," borrows from contemporary history to script a sweeping tale of an American political dynasty and its downfall.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ethan Canin's latest novel, "America America," is big in size and ambition, but uneven in execution. The Iowa City author discusses it at two Seattle-area events next week.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ethan Canin's riveting and thought-provoking political novel arrives at the perfect time - the summer before a pivotal presidential election - and reflects wisely on the ongoing clash of public idealism and ruthless ambition.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Melanie McGrath reviews America, America by Ethan Canin.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
America America by Ethan Canin
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Book review: You can tell immediately from the title Ethan Canin has set out to write a Great American Novel with this. Unfortunately, he misses the target. ' border='0'/>
