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Tan, Amy : The Kitchen God's Wife

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1991

ISBN 0399135782

With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

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Tan, Amy : The Kitchen God's Wife

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City, NY, 1991

ISBN 0399135782

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 415 pages. The author's second novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. This is more desirable than the kitschy Franklin Mint Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife". Featuring a dazzlingly beautiful design by Gretchen Shields (who did the wonderful illustrations for Amy Tan's "The Moon Lady", her children's-book adaptation of "The Joy Luck Club"). "Beautifully written, heart-rending, sometimes violent, with strong characterization, it will captivate one's interest to the very last page. This is more than a story about family relationships at a crossroads: It captures the essence of Chinese heritage and culture" (Midwest Book Review). Within a very short period of time, Amy Tan has become a living symbol of literary success and identity: Possibly the most visible (and most active) Asian-American writer/icon, she is justly celebrated for the abundance of her talent, a writer of effortlessly and lyrically limpid prose whose abiding subject is the "push" of identity and exile and the "pull" of tradition and family, from a singularly and sentimentally (in the best sense of the word) Chinese-American perspective. An absolute "must-have" title for Amy Tan collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Amy Tan. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AMY TAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0399135782.

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