2011, ISBN: 9780307270191

Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1972. 50p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. Cultural Revolution-period version of Opium War history., Zhonghua shuju, 1972, 0, Volume, measuring approximate… Plus…

Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1972. 50p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. Cultural Revolution-period version of Opium War history., Zhonghua shuju, 1972, 0, Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and red paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 229 pages."In her singular voicehumble, elegiac, practicalMaxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as 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 ("can't divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right") to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau's notion of a "broad margin," hoping to expand her vista: "I'm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day."On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never beena trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where rice farmers still work in the age-old way, even as a new era is dawning. "All over China," she writes, "and places where Chinese are, populations / are on the move, going home. That home / where Mother and Father are buried. Doors / between heaven and earth open wide."Such is the spirit of this wonderful booka sense of doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.", Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, 4<

2011, ISBN: 9780307270191

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and red paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket is preserved i… Plus…

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and red paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 229 pages."In her singular voicehumble, elegiac, practicalMaxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston's swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as 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 ("can't divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right") to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau's notion of a "broad margin," hoping to expand her vista: "I'm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day."On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never beena trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where rice farmers still work in the age-old way, even as a new era is dawning. "All over China," she writes, "and places where Chinese are, populations / are on the move, going home. That home / where Mother and Father are buried. Doors / between heaven and earth open wide."Such is the spirit of this wonderful booka sense of doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.", Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, 4<

ISBN: 9780307270191

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… Plus…

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Knopf, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780307270191

Knopf. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with… Plus…

Knopf. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Knopf, 3<