![]() ![]() Have never much thought about crewing, know very little about it, but after this book I know quite a bit. Rob Carrey, from a small town and with parents who want him to do better in life than they had, accepts a scholarship to crew on the God Four, even though this means repeating his senior year of high school. I have just added this book to books that have made a big impression on me. Over one tumultuous week, Rob Carrey will learn that he cannot leave the past in his wake. But the price that they pay for a shot at glory will scar each member of Carrey’s team far into adulthood.Ĭolin Payne, the Massachusetts blue-blood Jumbo, the good natured giant John Wadsworth the preppy lawyer-to-be Ruth Anderson, the Yale-bound coxswain and Rob Carrey, the scholarship athlete from Niccalsetti, New York - all of them are forever bound to one another by the terrible cost of victory. ![]() Despite having long ago buried the memories of the brutal year he spent at the elite Fenton School in Connecticut as a postgraduate rower, Carrey finds that those days now return to haunt him.The Fenton School Boat Club’s top rowing team, called the God Four, is legendary. When documentary filmmaker Rob Carrey flies back to New York from a shoot in South Africa to salvage his relationship with his lover Caroline Smythe, he unexpectedly finds himself called back to his former boarding school following a heartbreaking tragedy. ![]()
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