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Carolyn See


(Carolyn Penelope See)
(b.1934)

Carolyn See is the author of five novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days. She is a book reviewer for The Washington Post and is on the board of PEN Center USA West. She has a Ph.D. in American literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English. Her awards include the prestigious Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. She lives in California.

Carolyn See is the author of five novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days. She is also the author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America. She is a book reviewer for The Washington Post and is on the board of PEN Center USA West. She has a Ph.D. in American literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English. Her awards include the prestigious Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. She lives in California.
 
 
Novels
   The Rest is Done with Mirrors (1970)
   Mothers, Daughters (1977)
   Rhine Maidens (1981)
   Golden Days (1987)
   Making History (1991)
   The Handyman (1999)
   There Will Never Be Another You (2006)
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"A masterpiece. Thank you Mr. Hellenga!"
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Getting in (2010)
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"Getting In takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams."
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The Wilderness (2009)
Samantha Harvey
"Cloder to Virginia Woolf's meditative novels than anything else I can think of."

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