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East Is East by T. C. Boyle (1991, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140131671

ISBN-139780140131673

eBay Product ID (ePID)61045

Product Key Features

Book TitleEast Is East

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year1991

GenreFiction

AuthorT.C. Boyle

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

SynopsisA young Japanese seaman jumps ship and washes ashore on a barrier island in this "marvelous [and] razor-edged" ( Cosmopolitan ) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. "A hilarious black farce about racial stereotypes, selfish dreams, and ambitions run hopelessly amok . . . It's a pastoral version of The Bonfire of the Vanities ."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into Tupelo Island, a nest of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. His arrival is not an auspicious one--he terrifies one islander literally to death. Fleeing the outraged survivors of his victim, he finds refuge in the cabin of Ruth Dershowitz, an aspiring novelist and resident of the artists' colony. Ruth, a young woman of ambiguous talent and ambivalent ambition, is simultaneously trying to prove herself as a writer, manipulate the pecking order of the colony, and carry on a thermovoltaic affair with the son of the colony's director--and Hiro suddenly finds himself a player in both scenarios. With East Is East , T.C. Boyle--hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation"--has written a sexy, savagely uproarious, cross-cultural tragicomedy of thwarted expectations, mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal., Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle , praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal.