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From
the Back Cover --
2008 WASHINGTON PRIZE
Richard Carr’s Ace is a gorgeously sad novel-in-verse. In a series of
intimate 14-line poems, Carr follows the tragic
love story of Ace and Carol, a love story born of junkyards. This poet
carefully rescues and polishes discarded lives,
gives voice and dignity to the disastrously troubled. Ace is emotionally
complex, honest, and deftly crafted.
—DENISE DUHAMEL, author of Mille et un sentiments
Ace offers us four vividly wrought characters bound together by the
ineffable yet invincible ties of family. While all
the lives here are “a blur of failure” in one sense or another, each is
nonetheless haunted by “the fog and debris of
lingering possibility”—possibility of love, of forgiveness, of
redemption—even after death. In this beautifully rendered sequence, the
gifted Richard Carr proves himself not only a superb poet but a fi
rstclass storyteller, keeping us turning the pages with admiration and
gratitude.
—CHRISTOPHER CONLON, author of Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt
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