Native Speaker by Jessica Hische

Native Speaker by Jessica Hische

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers-featuring cover art by Jessica Hische

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series launches with six perennial favorites to give as elegant gifts, or to showcase on your own shelves.

L is for Lee. Korean American Henry Park is 'surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, Yellow peril- neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy...' or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. And now, a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both and belongs to neither. Chang-Rae Lee's first novel Native Speaker is a raw and lyrical evocation of the immigrant experience and of the question of identity itself.

Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft, which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Prize for debut fiction. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University and was named one of The New Yorker's twenty best writers under forty.

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ISBN 13	9780143124306
ISBN 10	0143124307
Title	Native Speaker
Author	Jessica Hische
Series	Penguin Drop Caps Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-05-07
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Book., Winner of American Book Award., Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award., Winner of Granta Award., Winner of Oregon Book Award., Winner of PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel., Winner of QPB New Visions Award.
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