| The Binding Chair: Or, a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society Contributor(s): Harrison, Kathryn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060934425 ISBN-13: 9780060934422 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: A young Chinese woman with brutally bound feet becomes a unexpected celebrity who connects with a variety of women who've all suffered a disfigurement, mental or physical, that echoes her own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001016606 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.34" W x 8.08" (0.56 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harrison, Kathryn: - Kathryn Harrison is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her first novel, Thicker Than Water, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, Exposure, was also a New York Times Notable Book, and a national bestseller. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Colin Harrison. |