I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

Informationen zum Autor Maxine Hong Kingston was born in California in 1940, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She studied engineering at Berkeley before switching to English literature. After her marriage to actor Earll Kingston, she moved to Hawai'i where she worked as a teacher and continued to write her highly acclaimed books. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including, in 2008, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Klappentext Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of immigrants to America. Zusammenfassung Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. This memoir recalls her first major work "The Woman Warrior" in which she blended Chinese myth with fiction and autobiography to reflect on her mother's past life in China and the experience of immigrants to America.

Product details

• Authors: Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston Maxine Hong
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9781846552465
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-246-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General