Auction catalogue, books of Paul F. McAlenney, 14 to 15 April 1925
Author : American Art Association (New York).
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1925
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Auction catalogue, books of Paul F. MacAlenney ... [et al.], 7 to 8 May 1925
Author : American Art Association (New York).
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1925
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The Love Wife
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400043794
Book Description
From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member.Her name is Lanlan. She is Carnegie’s Mainland Chinese relative, a tough, surprisingly lovely survivor of the Cultural Revolution, who comes courtesy of Carnegie’s mother’s will. Is Lanlan a very good nanny, a heartless climber, or a posthumous gift from a formidable mother who never stopped wanting her son to marry a nice Chinese girl? Rich in insight, buoyed by humor, The Love Wife is a hugely satisfying work.
Mona in the Promised Land
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307826589
Book Description
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes a “hilariously funny and seriously important” novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese American teenager doing her best to fit in–even if it means converting to Judaism. In these pages, acclaimed author Gish Jen introduces us to teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York. Here, the Chinese are seen as "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally—even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
World and Town
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307473309
Book Description
The award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon and The Resisters delivers “[a] triumph of a novel.... Jen reflects America, at its best, its worst, its most vulnerable” (The Miami Herald), and asks deep questions about religion, love, home, and meaning. Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that it’s time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake, a place that once represented the rock-solid base of American life. Instead of quietude, Hattie discovers a town challenged by cell-phone towers, chain stores, and struggling farms. Soon Hattie is joined by an immigrant Cambodian family on the run, and—quite unexpectedly—Carter Hatch, a love from her past.
Who's Irish?
Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307826546
Book Description
In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land—presents a "sparkling ... gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it" (The New York Times). 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 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.
Town histories
Author : James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
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Pictures, Drawings and Engravings
Author : Knight Frank & Rutley
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781014633569
Book Description
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American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934: a Union List
Author : George L. McKay
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1999
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ISBN : 9781578981311
Book Description
American Bibliography
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 1963
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