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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr
Publication date September 1, 1988
Pages 134
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780913175149
ISBN-10 0913175145
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.50 lbs.
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Original list price $11.95
§As reported by publisher
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.


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Paperback
Book cover for 9780813526072 Book cover for 9780813529530 Book cover for 9780913175149
 
With King-Kok Cheung (other contributor) | Revised edition from Rutgers Univ Pr (May 1, 2001)
9780813529530 | details & prices | 178 pages | 8.50 × 5.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $23.95
With Hisaye Yamamato | from Rutgers Univ Pr (December 1, 1998)
9780813526072 | details & prices | 134 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.00
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With King-Kok Cheung | from Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr (September 1, 1988)
9780913175149 | details & prices | 134 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $11.95
About: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career.

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