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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399141146
- ISBN 13
- 9780399141140
- Seller
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Yucca Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
"... a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts."
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, 1st printing (full number line), signed by the author on title page. DJ with slight shelf wear; in Brodart. Boards clean, lightly bumped, binding tight. Text clean, no creases or tears.
Synopsis
"The wisest and most captivating novel tan has written." - The Boston Globe Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
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Details
- Bookseller
- KnC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BF02000000251
- Title
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399141146
- ISBN 13
- 9780399141140
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 358
- Keywords
- Chinese-American, AAPI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Ethnic Studies;
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Glossary
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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