I Love a Broad Margin to My Life Contributor(s): Kingston, Maxine Hong (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307454592 ISBN-13: 9780307454591 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2012372617 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Chinese |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In her singular voice--both humble and brave, touching and humorous--Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters--Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior--and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish. |