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Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

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Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
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    Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder

    Zachary Lazar

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan

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ISBN13: 9780804106306
ISBN10: 0804106304
Condition: Standard
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"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.
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SarahNicoleD, December 4, 2009 (view all comments by SarahNicoleD)
Such a beautifully written book! I would read it over and over again. Read this story and you will never forget it.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780804106306
Author:
Tan, Amy
Publisher:
Ivy Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Mothers and sons
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Sagas
Subject:
Chinese americans
Subject:
Asian americans
Subject:
Literature, Modern
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Chinese American women
Subject:
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Mother-child relations.
Copyright:
c198
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Series Volume:
bk. 5
Publication Date:
April 1990
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
6.87x4.18x1.01 in. .37 lbs.
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