| Leave It to Me Contributor(s): Mukherjee, Bharati (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449003965 ISBN-13: 9780449003961 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: In her first novel since "The Holder of the World", which Amy Tan called "an amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling", Bharati Mukherjee presents a stunningly reimagined version of the Electra story. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98096385 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.58" W x 8.52" (0.79 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A very fine writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound. --The Washington Post Book World MUKHERJEE IS FEARLESS . . . DARING AND WITTY . . . Take the wild ride with Debby DiMartino from Albany to San Francisco, from lost child to masked avenger. --The Boston Globe POWERFULLY WRITTEN . . . Debby has no memory of her birth parents. All she knows is that she was born in a remote Indian village, the daughter of a hippie back-packing mother and a mysterious Eurasian father, both of whom have disappeared almost without a trace. . . . Her quest for her biological parents turns into an obsession. . . . Leave It to Me . . . shows Mukherjee at the peak of her craft. . . . Mixing the Greek myth of Electra with the Indian myth of Devi, she sends Devi/Debby careening down on the Bay Area like an elemental force of vengeance. --San Francisco Chronicle DEVI IS A BRILLIANT CREATION--hilarious, horribly knowing and even more horribly oblivious--through whom Bharati Mukherjee, with characteristic and shameless ingenuity, is laying claim to speak for an America that isn't 'other' at all. --The New York Times Book Review STUNNING . . . An astute, ironic, and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) |