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The Joy Luck Club Hardcover - 1989
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Acceptable
- first
In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40 years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. Their stories ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American. First serials to Ladies' Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, and San Francisco Focus.
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Details
- Title The Joy Luck Club
- Author Tan, Amy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition F First Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- Date 1989-03-22
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0399134204-7-1-13
- ISBN 9780399134203 / 0399134204
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.27 x 1.09 in (23.67 x 15.93 x 2.77 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 930
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Mothers and daughters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88026492
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true.
The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember…
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/1992, Page 661
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2008, Page 100
- Library Journal, 02/15/1989, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 12/23/1988, Page 0