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Hardcover:
9780674072831 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 25, 2013, cover price $18.95
Product Description: Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that itâs time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake, a place that once represented the rock-solid base of American life...read more
Hardcover:
9780307272195 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 5, 2010, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the much-loved author of Whoâs Irish?
Paperback:
9780307473301 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that itâs time to start over.
Miscellaneous:
9780307594419 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 5, 2010, cover price $26.95
Product Description: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins. . . She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441773555 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781441773548 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
Product Description: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins. . . She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441773579 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
9781441773562 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
Product Description: The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it...read more
Paperback:
9780375705922 | Vintage Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An anthology of short stories captures the lives and fortunes of Chinese Americans as they make their way through American society.
Prebinding:
9781439501900 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The stories in Who's Irish?
This coming-of-age story presents David Copperfield, who suffers the wrath of his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls deeply in love with childlike Dora, as he struggles to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood. Reissue.
Paperback:
9780451530042 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, February 1, 2006), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: David Copperfield suffers from his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls in love with Dora, as he fights to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood.
The arrival of a 'cousin' from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve ostensibly as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil. By the author of Mona in the Promised Land. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Paperback:
9781400076512 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 11, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The arrival of a 'cousin' from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve ostensibly as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil.
The arrival of a 'cousin' from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve ostensibly as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil. By the author of Mona in the Promised Land.
Hardcover:
9781400042135 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 14, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The arrival of a 'cousin' from mainland China, arranged by Mama Wong to serve as a nanny, throws the household of Carnegie Wong, a second-generation Chinese American, his WASP wife Blondie, and their three children into turmoil.
Paperback:
9780933277298 | Ploughshares Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Contributors to this issue include: Ann Beattie, Moira Crone, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Drury, Carol Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Graver, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Bill Marx, Garry Mitchell, Sabina Murray, Pamela Painter, Jess Row, Esmeralda Santiago, Lysley A.
Captures the lives and fortunes of Chinese Americans as they make their way through American society
Hardcover:
9780375406218 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Captures the lives and fortunes of Chinese Americans as they make their way through American society
Paperback:
9781862072763 | Granta Books, June 28, 1999, cover price $16.10
Hardcover:
9780679445890 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In 1968, teenager Mona Chang and her family discover a confusing new world filled with ethnic complexities when they move to exclusive Scarshill, New York
Paperback:
9780679776505 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1968, teenager Mona Chang and her family discover a confusing new world filled with ethnic complexities when they move to exclusive Scarshill, New York
9781862070349 | Granta Books, March 17, 1997, cover price $16.45
Hardcover:
9780395546895 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A novel portraying the Chinese immigrant experience in America follows the fortunes of the Chang family as they adjust to the freedom of America and become caught up in suburban life, greed, and the American dream
Paperback:
9780307389220 | Vintage Books, January 8, 2008, cover price $15.95
9780452267749 | Reprint edition (Plume, March 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A novel portraying the Chinese immigrant experience in America follows the fortunes of the Chang family as they adjust to the freedom of America and become caught up in suburban life, greed, and the American dream
Prebinding:
9781417769131 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A novel portraying the Chinese immigrant experience in America follows the fortunes of the Chang family as they adjust to the freedom of America and become caught up in suburban life, greed, and the American dream
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