I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780307454591
ISBN-13 : 0307454592
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by : Maxine Hong Kingston

In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780307270191
ISBN-13 : 030727019X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis I Love a Broad Margin to My Life by : Maxine Hong Kingston

The author reflects on her life as she turns sixty-five. Told in free verse.

To Be the Poet

To Be the Poet
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 0674007913
ISBN-13 : 9780674007918
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis To Be the Poet by : Maxine Hong Kingston

"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time--and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet. A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, To Be the Poet is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet.

Tripmaster Monkey

Tripmaster Monkey
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780307787903
ISBN-13 : 0307787907
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Tripmaster Monkey by : Maxine Hong Kingston

Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.

China Men

China Men
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780679723288
ISBN-13 : 0679723285
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis China Men by : Maxine Hong Kingston

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1578060591
ISBN-13 : 9781578060597
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston by : Maxine Hong Kingston

In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created.

Hawai'i One Summer

Hawai'i One Summer
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Publisher : Diversion Books
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9781626814042
ISBN-13 : 162681404X
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Hawai'i One Summer by : Maxine Hong Kingston

Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.

The Woman Warrior, China Men

The Woman Warrior, China Men
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004860336
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Woman Warrior, China Men by : Maxine Hong Kingston

The author recalls her experiences growing up Chinese-American in California and her mother's stories of strong women warriors in her native China, and also discusses the history of Chinese men in America from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad to those who fought in Vietnam.

The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307759337
ISBN-13 : 0307759334
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Woman Warrior by : Maxine Hong Kingston

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

Steer Toward Rock

Steer Toward Rock
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Publisher : Hyperion
Total Pages : 334
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781401395759
ISBN-13 : 1401395759
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Steer Toward Rock by : Fae Myenne Ng

"The woman I loved wasn't in love with me; the woman I married wasn't a wife to me. Ilin Cheung was my wife on paper. In deed, she belonged to Yi-Tung Szeto. In debt, I also belonged to him. He was my father, paper too." Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's heartbreaking novel of unrequited love, tells the story of the only bachelor butcher at the Universal Market in San Francisco. Jack Moon Szeto--that was the name he bought, the name he made his life by--serves the lonely grass widows whose absentee husbands work the farmlands in the Central Valley. A man who knows that the body is the only truth, Jack attends to more than just their weekly orders of lamb or beef. But it is the free-spirited, American-born Joice Qwan with whom Jack falls in love. A woman whose life is guided by more than simple pain, Joice hands out towels at the Underground Bathhouse and sells tickets at the Great Star Theatre; her mother cleans corpses. Joice wants romance and she wants to escape Chinatown, but Jack knows that she is his ghost of love, better chased than caught. It is the 1960s and while the world is on the edge of an exciting future, Jack has not one grain of choice in his life. When his paper wife arrives from China he is forced to fulfill the last part of his contract and to stand before the law with the woman who is to serve as mistress to his fake father. Jack has inherited a cruel cultural legacy. A man with no claim to the past, his only hope is to make a new story for himself, one that includes both Joice and America. Not since Bone, Fae Myenne Ng's highly praised debut novel, has a work so eloquently revealed the complex loyalties of Chinese America. Steer Toward Rock is the story of a man who chooses love over the law, illuminating a part of U.S. history few are aware of, but one that has had echoing effects for generations.