| Who's Irish?: Stories Contributor(s): Jen, Gish (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375705929 ISBN-13: 9780375705922 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2000 Annotation: "Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--"The New York Times With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves. The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.38" W x 8.06" (0.52 lbs) 224 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 70919 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land--looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar--and as strange--as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves. |