The Joy Luck Club (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$100 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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TAN, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Octavo. Full deep brown leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers. All edges gilt. Brown moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 288 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. Amy Tan (b. 1952) was born in Oakland, California, to parents who had emigrated from China in the years before the Communist revolution. Her father was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister; her mother had left behind a previous husband and three daughters when she fled Shanghai in 1949. These biographical facts — immigration, rupture, the lives her mother had lived before arriving in America, and the difficulty of communicating across the gap between generations and cultures — became the raw material of The Joy Luck Club , which Tan began writing in the late 1980s while working as a business writer and which she initially pursued partly to understand the relationship with her mother that she had long found both essential and impenetrable. The Joy Luck Club was published in 1989, spent nearly a year on the New York Times bestseller list, and was nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The structure is unusual: sixteen s

• Binding: Hardcover

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