Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor's ... [... more]
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (Literary ...
 A Great Read!: I first read Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior when I was in 10th grade and I fell in love with it! I am Asian American myself and I could relate to various aspects in the novel. However, a lot of the novel can be confusing so I was not [... more]
$22.00
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Maxine Hong Kingston - Short Stories
As a young girl growing up in California in the 1940's, Maxine Hong Kingston lived in two worlds - the America she was born into and the China remembered and related to her by her mother. Storytelling was part of the Hong household, and ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the [... more]
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Voices of Diversity - Maxine Hong Kingston Education Art ...
Features: Print Title: Voices of Diversity - Maxine Hong Kingston Size: 17 x 11 inches Please visit www.amazon.com/artdotcom to check for promotions from time to time. Binding: Kitchen [... more]
$10.99
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Maxine Hong Kingston (Contemporary World Writers)
Book Description: Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. In this volume Grice traces Kingston's [... more]
$23.95
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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
A must read!: I've often wished for what "Veterans of War Veterans of Peace" offers, honest and eloquent testimonies of war's myriad sorrows and transformations, to guide my own healing as a daughter of the war in Viet Nam. I am stunned by [... more]
$20.00
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The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American ...
California, End of the earth: I'm taking a class from one of the guys who compiled the book, and for starters let me say twenty bucks is a damn good deal for a textbook. This one is meaty too. Very interesting prefaces for each selection of writing, as [... more]
$29.95
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To Be the Poet (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in ...
Charming, if somewhat puzzling, little book: In this book, Maxine Hong Kingston proclaims to want to live the life of the poet. Working on her "longbook"--her thousand-plus page novel about Vietnam war veterans (her first novel since 1989's & [... more]
$19.95
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Hawai'i One Summer (Latitude 20 Book)
Absolutely Wonderful: HAWAI'I ONE SUMMER is probably Kingston's least-read work, but I think it's the piece which captures this writer's clear and graceful prose style the best. Her essays range from surfing to dishwashing. Who'd ever guess that someone [... more]
$12.95
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The Fifth Book of Peace
Boy, Do I Feel Guilty Giving This Book Less than 5 Stars: Because of the subject matter of this book--which is predominantly about Kingston's writers groups for War Veterans--and because I love so much of her earlier writing, I do feel guilty giving & [... more]
$14.95
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Woman Warrior
It Helped Me Understand My Own Heritage: I have a different perspective from many readers who view this book primarily as a work of Women's Literature. As a half-asian male with a emigree mother, I read this book many years ago, in those formless, [... more]
$15.65
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