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The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.
LIBRA - Special PS3570.A48 J6 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Amy.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Societies and clubs--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Societies and clubs.
- Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
- Reminiscing in old age.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Chinese American women--Fiction.
- Chinese American women.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Female friendship--Fiction.
- Female friendship.
- Mothers--Death--Fiction.
- Mothers.
- Mothers--Death.
- California--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Putnam's, ©1989.
- ISBN:
- 067972768X
- 9780679727682
- OCLC:
- 23652164
- Online:
- Publisher description
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