Typical American

Typical American

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作者: Gish Jen 著

出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

出版时间: 2008-01

ISBN: 9780307389220

定价: 108.70

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 304页

正文语种: 英语

丛书: Vintage Contemporaries

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

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FromthebelovedauthorofMonainthePromisedLandandTheLoveWifecomesthiscomicmasterpiece,aninsightfulnovelofimmigrantsexperiencingthetriumphsandtrialsofAmericanlife.

GishJenreinventstheAmericanimmigrantstorythroughtheChangfamily,whofirstcometotheUnitedStateswithnointentionofstaying.WhentheCommunistsassumecontrolofChinain1949,though,RalphChang,hissisterTheresa,andhiswifeHelen,findthemselvesinacrisis.Atfirst,theyclingtotheirold-worldideasofthemselves.ButastheybegintodreamtheAmericandreamofself-invention,theymovepoignantlyandironicallyfrompeoplewhodisparageallthatis“typicalAmerican”topeoplewhomightbeseenastypicallyAmericanthemselves.Withdrollhumorandadeepempathyforhercharacters,GishJencreateshereasuperblyengrossingstorythatresonateswithwitandwisdomevenasitchallengesthereadertoreconsiderwhatatypicalAmericanmightbetoday. GishJenistheauthorofthenovelsTypicalAmerican,MonainthePromisedLand,TheLoveWifeandWho’sIrish,abookofstories.HerhonorsincludetheLannanAwardforFictionandtheStraussLivingAwardfromtheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters.SheliveswithherhusbandandtwochildreninCambridge,Massachusetts.
内容简介:
FromthebelovedauthorofMonainthePromisedLandandTheLoveWifecomesthiscomicmasterpiece,aninsightfulnovelofimmigrantsexperiencingthetriumphsandtrialsofAmericanlife.

GishJenreinventstheAmericanimmigrantstorythroughtheChangfamily,whofirstcometotheUnitedStateswithnointentionofstaying.WhentheCommunistsassumecontrolofChinain1949,though,RalphChang,hissisterTheresa,andhiswifeHelen,findthemselvesinacrisis.Atfirst,theyclingtotheirold-worldideasofthemselves.ButastheybegintodreamtheAmericandreamofself-invention,theymovepoignantlyandironicallyfrompeoplewhodisparageallthatis“typicalAmerican”topeoplewhomightbeseenastypicallyAmericanthemselves.Withdrollhumorandadeepempathyforhercharacters,GishJencreateshereasuperblyengrossingstorythatresonateswithwitandwisdomevenasitchallengesthereadertoreconsiderwhatatypicalAmericanmightbetoday.
作者简介:
GishJenistheauthorofthenovelsTypicalAmerican,MonainthePromisedLand,TheLoveWifeandWho’sIrish,abookofstories.HerhonorsincludetheLannanAwardforFictionandtheStraussLivingAwardfromtheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters.SheliveswithherhusbandandtwochildreninCambridge,Massachusetts.

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