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Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
por Carey, Peter
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 1400043115
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043118
- Livreiro
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Southampton, New York, United States
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Sobre este item
Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($17.95 price intact). Published by Knopf, 2004. Octavo. Red cloth over black boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 158 pages. ISBN: 9781400043118. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Sinopse
The recipient of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel--and now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son but also entranced himself. Thus begins a journey, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old's exotic comic books, that ultimately leads them to Tokyo, WHERE a strange Japanese boy will become both their guide and judge. Quickly the visitors plunge deep into the lanes of Shitimachi--into the "weird stuff" of modern Japan--meeting manga artists and anime directors; painstaking impersonators called "visualists," who adopt a remarkable variety of personae; and solitary otakus, whose existence is thoroughly computerized. What emerges from these encounters is a far-ranging study of history and of culture both high and low--from samurai to salaryman, from Kabuki theater to the postwar robot craze. Peter Carey's observations are always provocative, even when his hosts point out, politely, that he is once again wrong about Japan. And his adventures with Charley are at once comic, surprising, and deeply moving, as father and son cope with and learn from each other in a strange place far from home.This is, in the end, a remarkable portrait of a culture--whether Japan or adolescence--that looks eerily familiar but remains tantalizingly closed to outsiders.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Southampton Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 109203
- Título
- Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
- Autor
- Carey, Peter
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Like New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400043115
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043118
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2005
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