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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Demco Media
Publication date
September 1, 2002
Binding
Reinforced
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780606242776
ISBN-10
0606242775
Dimensions
1.25 by 4.25 by 7 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$16.80
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club', 'The Kitchen God's Wife' and 'The Hundred Secret Senses'. LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: Who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Chivers (June 1, 2001); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780754015949 | details & prices | 567 pages | List price $55.01
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (April 1, 2001); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780786229529 | details & prices | 567 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $32.95
Slp edition from Putnam Pub Group (March 1, 2001); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780399146855 | details & prices | 353 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $150.00
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
from Putnam Pub Group (February 1, 2001); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780399146435 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (February 1, 2003); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780345457370 | details & prices | 400 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (July 1, 2002); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780786229512 | details & prices | 567 pages | 5.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $29.95
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (January 1, 2002); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780804114981 | details & prices | 403 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $7.99
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Largeprint edition from Chivers (June 1, 2001); titled "The Bonesetter''s Daughter"
9780754024538 | details & prices | 567 pages | List price $22.01
Reinforced
The price comparison is for this edition
from Demco Media (September 1, 2002); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780606242776 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.80
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (June 5, 2008); titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
9781435297807 | details & prices | 400 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $23.95
This edition also contains The Bonesetter's Daughter
This edition also contains The Bonesetter's Daughter
from Turtleback Books (February 1, 2003); titled "Bonesetter's Daughter"
9781417669981 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.92 lbs | List price $28.20
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
from Turtleback Books (August 1, 2002); titled "Bonesetter's Daughter"
9780613426671 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $18.40
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
About: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
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