num_pages: 368
description: 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. 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 Clubs top rowing team called the God Four is legendary. But the price that they pay for a shot at glory will scar each member of Carreys team far into adulthood.Colin 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. Over one tumultuous week Rob Carrey will learn that he cannot leave the past in his wake.
language: English
title: Flat Water Tuesday
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books