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THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING
por Louie, David Wong
- Usado
- as new
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- As New/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399146032
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146039
- Livreiro
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Good. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Sterling Lung grew up in the back of his parents' laundry dreaming of being an American, while speaking Chinese to his mother, English to his friends, and very little to the father he always seemed to disappoint. Now twenty-six and a graduate of Swarthmore and the Culinary Institute of America, Sterling cooks French food for the Wasp ladies of a private club and conducts an arm's-length affair with a Jewish-American princess, thereby frustrating his father's dream of a doctor son and his mother's scheme for a Chinese bride. For Sterling's parents, the barbarians are already here. In a tale that alternates between black comedy and out-and-out slapstick, between the pain of a son alienated from his father and that of a father alienated from his son's native land, THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING is a template of the American immigrant experience: of the deracination of the second generation, the wrenching losses of the first, and the legacy of misunderstanding that binds the two. By turns antic and deeply moving, it is, ultimately, a powerful depiction of the Chinese-American experience and a profoundly affecting novel about fathers and sons. As new, in near-fine (front flap creased, else fine), mylar-protected dust jacket. L1
Sinopse
David Wong Louie is the author of Pangs of Love , winner of the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and the Ploughshares First Book Award. He lives in Venice, California, and teaches at UCLA.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 6042
- Título
- THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING
- Autor
- Louie, David Wong
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399146032
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146039
- Editorial
- Putnam Publishing Group, The
- Local de publicação
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação
- 2000
- Dimensão
- 64mo - up to 3" tall
- Palavras-chave
- FICTION GENERAL CHINESE AMERICANS Contemporary
- Product_type
- 2
Termos da venda
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
Membro de Biblio desde 2003
Los Angeles, California
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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