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Carter Coleman

Biography

Carter Coleman

Carter Coleman, a graduate of Vanderbilt University, has written for the Los Angeles Times Book Review and Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Life, and Rolling Stone. The Volunteer, Coleman's debut novel, is the story of a Peace Corps worker in Tanzania determined to escape his past in Memphis, Tennessee and forge a new life. Carter Coleman lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Carter Coleman

Books by Carter Coleman

by Carter Coleman

Born eleven months apart and coming of age in the Deep South of the sixties and seventies, Cage and Nick Rutledge are the eldest sons of a preacher and a Tennessee housewife. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boy-star athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular. Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son, and Harper, ten years younger, chases after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. Then comes the terrible day in July 1987. Tragedy strikes-and the breakdown of the family begins...