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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989, Hardcover)

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Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Author Amy Tan. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.

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Master storyteller Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters in this New York Times bestseller. " The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational." --Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. 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...

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399134204
ISBN-13
9780399134203
eBay Product ID (ePID)
717991

Product Key Features

Book Title
Joy Luck Club
Author
Amy Tan
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Sagas, Family Life, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Weight
18.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
18-Up
Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.A48j6 1989
Publication Date
1989-03-22
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Number
30
Reviews
"Powerful as myth." -- The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -- The New York Times Book Review "Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -- Los Angeles Times "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Powerful as myth." -- The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -- The New York Times Book Review "Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -- Los Angeles Times "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "Powerful as myth." -- The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -- The New York Times Book Review "Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -- Los Angeles Times "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Reading it really changed the way I thought about Asian-American history. Our heritage has a lot of difficult stuff in it -- a lot of misogyny, a lot of fear and rage and death. It showed me a past that reached beyond borders and languages and cultures to bring together these disparate elements of who we are. I hadn't seen our history like that before. At that time, we hadn't seen a lot of Asian-American representations anywhere, so it was a big deal that it even existed. It made me feel validated and seen. That's what's so important about books like that. You feel like, Oh my god, I exist here. I exist in this landscape of literature and memoir. I'm here, and I have a story to tell, and it's among the canon of Asian-American stories that are feminist and that are true to our being. It's a book that has stayed with me and lived in me." --Margaret Cho, "Powerful as myth." -- The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." -- The New York Times Book Review "Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." -- Los Angeles Times "Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Reading it really changed the way I thought about Asian-American history. Our heritage has a lot of difficult stuff in it -- a lot of misogyny, a lot of fear and rage and death. It showed me a past that reached beyond borders and languages and cultures to bring together these disparate elements of who we are. I hadn't seen our history like that before. At that time, we hadn't seen a lot of Asian-American representations anywhere, so it was a big deal that it even existed. It made me feel validated and seen. That's what's so important about books like that. You feel like, Oh my god, I exist here. I exist in this landscape of literature and memoir. I'm here, and I have a story to tell, and it's among the canon of Asian-American stories that are feminist and that are true to our being. It's a book that has stayed with me and lived in me." -- Margaret Cho
Copyright Date
1989
Lccn
88-026492
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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5 out of 5 stars
by sjin8927 Oct, 2009
The story of four immigration families
This is a story of love between four immigrations families. There are four Chinese women and their four American daughters have been written on this book. The book has talked about the different behavior and thinking way between the four Chinese mothers and their American daughters. Each individual story in this book is enough with different language and different culture. This book is good at separating the whole book with each individual little story that is very helpful for me to be concentrating. When I was reading the book, I was interesting at reading very small stories. From reading the whole book, I spent a lot of time on fingering out who is the mother and this girl is whose daughter. And also I spent a lot of time on reading the mothers’ experiences from their previous time and American time. From this book, I see how each Chinese woman come to America with difficulties and how they faced the difficulties and trading their new life. This book talked a lot about women and their daughters, I heard many people said this is a woman book, but I think this book is good for everyone because it could tell us what are love and the relationship between parents and children. This book is a very good choice for everyone to read and learn the experiences of dealing with the relationship of parents and children from the four Chinese women and their American daughters. This is a book used four Chinese women as the example of how Chinese people raised their own country by personally during the war and also using their whole life to teach their daughters to do so.Read full review
5 out of 5 stars
by mejo70016 Dec, 2020
Joy Luck
Sort of different as it's the oriental life as well as american. Makes it an interesting read
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5 out of 5 stars
by forgood2421 Jul, 2021
A+ Quality and Content
Love me some Amy Tan! Classic generational family conflicts, amazing history, wonderfully developed characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
by jdbucksavage85011 Jun, 2023
Very good
A very good read. Such a different story.
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1 out of 5 stars
by heidemanns720506 Mar, 2018
No sleeve
No sleeve. Just hardcover. Not as advertised. Should have been pictured as sold
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