Carry Me Down (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 2 books, including Carry Me Down, Saturday, October 31 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Carry Me Down Friday, October 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: M. J. Hyland: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Carry Me Down Friday, October 23 2009.

• Added an award: Man Booker Prize
• Added year of an award: Man Booker Prize 2006
• Checked finalist field of an award: Man Booker Prize

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Carry Me Down Friday, October 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: M. J. Hyland: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Carry Me Down, Friday, October 23 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Carry Me Down Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• John Egan is a misfit — "a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant" — who diligently keeps a "log of lies." John's been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember, it's a source of power but also great consternation for a boy so young. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records , a keenly inquisitive mind, and a kind of faith, John remains hopeful despite the unfavorable cards life deals him. This is one year in a boy's life. On the cusp of adolescence, from his changing voice and body, through to his parents’ difficult travails and the near collapse of his sanity, John is like a tuning fork sensitive to the vibrations within himself and the trouble that this creates for he and his family. Carry Me Down is a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes outrageously funny portrait whose drama drives toward, but narrowly averts, an unthinkable disaster.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Carry Me Down Friday, July 17 2009.

• It is January, a dark Sunday m winter, and I sit with my mother and father at the kitchen table.