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The barbarians are coming : a novel / David Wong Louie.
LIBRA - Special PS3562.O818 B37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Black humor (Literature)
- Penn Provenance:
- Louie, David Wong, 1954- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 372 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Berkley trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- The American-born son of Chinese parents, twenty-six-year-old Sterling has disappointed his parents by choosing the Culinary Institute of America rather than medical school and he is about to let them down again as his girlfriend wants to marry, since his parents want him to wed the Chinese picture-bride they have chosen for him.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2000.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.
- ISBN:
- 0425178285
- 9780425178287
- OCLC:
- 46593669
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