The fortunes
(Book)
Author
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016].
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Ashland Library
F DAVIES P
1 available
F DAVIES P
1 available
Eagle Point Library Branch
F DAVIES P
1 available
F DAVIES P
1 available
Jacksonville Library Branch
F DAVIES P
1 available
F DAVIES P
1 available
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Eagle Point Library Branch | F DAVIES P | On Shelf |
Jacksonville Library Branch | F DAVIES P | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Citation/References
Booklist,,July 01, 2016
Citation/References
BookPage,,September 01, 2016
Citation/References
Library Journal,,August 01, 2016
Citation/References
Publishers Weekly,,June 20, 2016
Description
"From the best-selling, acclaimed author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel recasting American history through the lives of Chinese Americans. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, Tell It Slant reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. Tell It Slant uses this history from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls to create a portrait of a community whose line of descent is broken, yet which has tenaciously persisted, as much through love as by blood.Through four lives a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a victim of a hate crime that mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history.Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies answers Emily Dickinson's call to Tell It Slant, finding therein a greater truth. He uses each of these stories three inspired by real historical characters to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Davies, P. H. (2016). The fortunes . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-. 2016. The Fortunes. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-. The Fortunes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Davies, Peter Ho. The Fortunes Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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