Iron & Silk
 Perfect: As a person that has studied East Asian cultural history academically for years, and a person who will be teaching China just four months from now, I found this book to be perfect. It was not written by a scholar, and I think in reality that is [... more]
CDN$29.12
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Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
From Amazon.com: The author of Iron and Silk looks back to his tortured youth with self-deprecating humor and wistful fondness. The oldest child in a middle-class household in Connecticut, the son of a piano teacher and a social worker, by age six the [... more]
CDN$18.95
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True Notebooks
true and astonshing work: Author Mark Salzman admits right off the bat that he wanted to refuse a friend's request to lead a writing group at a juvenile hall. He's uncomfortable around teenagers, and he feels unqualified to teach minority youths from a [... more]
CDN$36.00
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The Laughing Sutra
Who's the stranger, and where's the strange land?: The Laughing Sutra, although fiction, is the perfect counterpoint to Iron & Silk. Salzman is the main figure in Iron & Silk, showing the cultural differences between the American and Chinese [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Lying Awake: A Novel
From Amazon.com: In his third novel, Lying Awake, Mark Salzman breaks the primary rule of fiction by creating a protagonist who has virtually no external life. Sister John of the Cross, a middle-aged nun cloistered in a Carmelite monastery in [... more]
CDN$17.00
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Lying Awake
From Amazon.com: In his third novel, Lying Awake, Mark Salzman breaks the primary rule of fiction by creating a protagonist who has virtually no external life. Sister John of the Cross, a middle-aged nun cloistered in a Carmelite monastery in [... more]
CDN$33.00
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Iron and Silk
From Amazon.com: In 1982, Salzman flew off to teach English in Changsha, China. He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He's gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest [... more]
CDN$17.95
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
true and astonshing work: Author Mark Salzman admits right off the bat that he wanted to refuse a friend's request to lead a writing group at a juvenile hall. He's uncomfortable around teenagers, and he feels unqualified to teach minority youths from a [... more]
CDN$16.95
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The Soloist
A rare gem! Read this book. Recommended w.out reservation: This book startled me with its quiet intensity. It just drew me in and when I had to put it down to do a task, I would still be thinking about the issues the book presented. There is a lot going [... more]
CDN$19.95
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