The Joy Luck Club

New York: Putnam, 1989.

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Hardcover. Second edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Edges of pages light brown, clean text. Front hinge cracked. Spine ends bumped. Clean cover. Edges of dustwrapper rubbed. Fine edges yellowing. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Item #202630
ISBN: 0399134204

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Amy Tan
birth name: Amy Tan
born: 2/19/1952

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Biography

American author of novels about Chinese-American women that contrast the hardships the immigrant women experienced in China with the very different lives of their American daughters. She is best known for her two semiautobiographical novels, The Joy Luck Club(1989;film, 1993) and The Kitchen God's Wife(1991). Tan also wrote two children's stories, The Moon Lady(1992) and The Chinese Siamese Cat(1994). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore