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Item specifics

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Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
ISBN
9780312426262

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312426267
ISBN-13
9780312426262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63078949

Product Key Features

Book Title
Golden Boy : Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Asia / China
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Martin Booth
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."--"The Times "(London)   "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life."--William Grimes, "The New York Times", "Marvelously appealing memoir charts an enchanted few years of boyhood in post-war Hong Kong. Warm and vivid, bursting with life and energy, this is a valentine--but a clear-eyed one--to a particular place and time."--"Kirkus (starred) "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."--"The Times (UK) "Wonderful memoir...such pace and power."--"Sunday Telegraph (UK) "Highly evocative. As a sharp-eyed, sensitive child of a vanished Hong Kong, Booth earns his nostalgia."--"The Daily Telegraph (UK), A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life., "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."-- The Times (London) "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life."--William Grimes, The New York Times, "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."--The Times (London)   "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life."--William Grimes, The New York Times, "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."--The Times(London)   "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life."--William Grimes,The New York Times, "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true." -- The Times (London) "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life." -- William Grimes, The New York Times, "One of the most original and engaging memoirs of recent years. Personal, witty, and true."-- The Times (London)   "A dream world, enchantingly recreated . . . Bold and curious, Booth treated Hong Kong as his personal amusement park, making a beeline to every single location expressly forbidden by his parents, including and especially the secret walled city controlled by the Chinese mafia. . . . An extraordinarily happy book, filled with . . . color, variety, adventure . . . hilarious set-pieces, and pulsating with Hong Kong's vibrant street life."--William Grimes, The New York Times
Dewey Decimal
828/.91409 B
Synopsis
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a "pale fellow" like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past., The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong., At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a "gweilo," a "pale fellow" like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.

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