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Amy Tan
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Pages: 272 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0007169698
Pub: Flamingo
Pub date: 2003-11-17
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 459006
Reader Reviews:
Moving, insightful and poignant (14/14 people found this helpful)
As a huge fan of Tan's novels I have always felt a certain affinity with this author, empathising with the joy and sadness in her novels and wondering how much truth lay just beneath the surface.
It was a real treat, therefore, to discover that she had decided to write a memoir: finally, we can read the real stories that informed and shaped the fiction; we can catch a glimpse of the horror, pain, pleasure and excitement of a half-american, half-chinese upbringing; we can meet the mother, sisters, husband and friends of one of literature's most famous names; and best of all, we can lose ourselves in another wonderful book from our favorite author.
I almost never read non-fiction so be assured that this is as much of a treat as any of her novels. I shall be giving it to so many people this Christmas.
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Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Essays, Journals & Letters -> 20th Century
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Books -> Subjects -> Poetry, Drama & Criticism -> History & Criticism -> Novels & Novelists -> 20th Century
Books -> Subjects -> Poetry, Drama & Criticism -> Poetry -> By Period -> 19th Century
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