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The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.A48 J6 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Amy.
- 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
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