A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
by Nguyen, Viet Thanh
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0802160506
- ISBN 13
- 9780802160508
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Daphne, Alabama, United States
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SCARCE SIGNED! PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Mr. Nguyen directly to the full title page in bold, black Sharpie. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.
At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SàiGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening.
Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.
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- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1009
- Title
- A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial ~ SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0802160506
- ISBN 13
- 9780802160508
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, memoir, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Sympathizer,
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