The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tan, Amy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans--Fiction.

Chinese Americans.

Mothers and daughters--United States--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Putnam, [1989]

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, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember... In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost-over the years, between generations, among friends-and what is saved.

Contents:

Feathers from a Thousand Li Away

The Joy Luck Club / Jing-Mei Woo 19

Scar / An-Mei Hsu 42

The Red Candle / Lindo Jong 49

The Moon Lady / Ying-Ying St. Clair 67

The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates

Rules of the Game / Waverly Jong 89

The Voice from the Wall / Lena St. Clair 102

Half and Half / Rose Hsu Jordan 116

Two Kinds / Jing-Mei Woo 132

American Translation

Rice Husband / Lena St. Clair 149

Four Directions / Waverly Jong 166

Without Wood / Rose Hsu Jordan 185

Best Quality / Jing-Mei Woo 197

Queen Mother of the Western Skies

Magpies / An-Mei Hsu 215

Waiting Between the Trees / Ying-Ying St. Clair 242

Double Face / Lindo Jong 253

A Pair of Tickets / Jing-Mei Woo 267.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

18464018