Fire Wife: A Story of Fire and Water [FireWife]
by Tinling Choong
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385516452
- ISBN 13
- 9780385516457
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
An original, courageous novel, FireWife draws on the powerful Chinese myth of fire and water to explore how women's sexuality and fate are intertwined.Nin, a photographer, embarks on a five-month journey to photograph women around the world. Her travel turns into a search for the truth about women: the women of fire and the women of water. Each of her subjects' lives echoes a stage in Nin's discovery of her true "fire self." FireWife illuminates the gap between merely knowing and actually living one's true self. Poetic and intensely moving, FireWife is an exploration of contemporary Asian women unknowingly connected over time.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25215
- Title
- Fire Wife: A Story of Fire and Water [FireWife]
- Author
- Tinling Choong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385516452
- ISBN 13
- 9780385516457
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Fiction; Chinese Mythology; Novel
Terms of Sale
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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