Gish Jen

Who's Irish? (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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-author of the acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land-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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307826541
• Artikelnr.: 39206618

Autorenporträt

GISH JEN is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and two books of nonfiction, The Girl at the Baggage Claim and Tiger Writing. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She teaches from time to time in China and otherwise lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Who's Irish
Birthmates
The Water Faucet Vision
Duncan in China
Just Wait
Chin
In the American Society
House, House, House