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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
January 18, 2011
Pages
229
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307270191
ISBN-10
030727019X
Dimensions
0.80 by 6 by 8.30 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$24.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In her singular voiceâhumble, elegiac, practicalâMaxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingstonâs swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage (âcanât divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love rightâ) to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreauâs notion of a âbroad margin,â hoping to expand her vista: âIâm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichwayâ / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day.â
On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never beenâa trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where rice farmers still work in the age-old way, even as a new era is dawning. âAll over China,â she writes, âand places where Chinese are, populations / are on the move, going home. That home / where Mother and Father are buried. Doors / between heaven and earth open wide.â
Such is the spirit of this wonderful bookâa sense of doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
Kingstonâs swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage (âcanât divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love rightâ) to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreauâs notion of a âbroad margin,â hoping to expand her vista: âIâm standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichwayâ / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day.â
On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never beenâa trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where rice farmers still work in the age-old way, even as a new era is dawning. âAll over China,â she writes, âand places where Chinese are, populations / are on the move, going home. That home / where Mother and Father are buried. Doors / between heaven and earth open wide.â
Such is the spirit of this wonderful bookâa sense of doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
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