I Love a Broad Margin To My Life by Maxine Hong Kingston
Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of immigrants to America.
This will delight Hong Kingston's admirersIt may test the uninitiated, but the author's verbal and linguistic mastery makes handsome amends * Times Literary Supplement *
A splendid raconteur, who shares with us the myths and stories that emerge from the lode of a culture's deepest realities * Chicago Tribune *
A meditation on form and formlessness, on meaning and identity, and [on] how the most essential truths often exist outside the boundaries * Los Angeles Times *
A splendid raconteur, who shares with us the myths and stories that emerge from the lode of a culture's deepest realities * Chicago Tribune *
A meditation on form and formlessness, on meaning and identity, and [on] how the most essential truths often exist outside the boundaries * Los Angeles Times *
Maxine Hong Kingston was born in California in 1940, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied engineering at Berkeley before switching to English literature. After her marriage to actor Earll Kingston, she moved to Hawai'i where she worked as a teacher and continued to write her highly acclaimed books. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including, in 2008, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846552465 |
| ISBN 10 | 184655246X |
| Title | I Love a Broad Margin To My Life |
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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