Free Food for Millionaires - Brossura

Jin Lee, Min

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0091921082 ISBN 13: 9780091921088

Casa editrice: Hutchinson, 2007

Riassunto

Casey Han's years at Princeton have given her 'a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, wealthy friends, a popular white boyfriend, and a magna cum laude degree in economics.But no job, and a number of bad habits...'

The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants who run a dry cleaning shop in Manhattan, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. Ambitious, spirited and obstinate, she's developed a taste for a lifestyle - and a passion for beautiful hats and expensive tailoring - she hasn't the means to sustain. And between the culture to which her family so fiercely cling and the life she aspires to, Casey must confront her own identity, the meaning of wealth, and what she really wants from her future.

As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a clash of values, ideals and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society, it's many layers, shades and divides.

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Recensione:

"Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing ... as easy to devour as a 19th century romance - packed with tales of flouted parental expectation, fluctuating female friendships and rivalries, ephemeral romantic hopes and losses and high-stakes career gambles" (New York Times)

"Exquisitely evoked ... an American story full of class struggle, rugged individualism, social status and the haves and have-nots. Most of all, it's an epic meditation on love ... in all its tenacious and painful glory" (USA Today)

"Min Jin Lee explores the most fundamental crisis of immigrants' children: how to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans, gaping between continents ... easy meanderings through Casey's life provide an insight into the secret world of Korean America, and there is a certain peaceful pleasure to be derived from its heroine's peregrinations as she reconciles her desires with the conventions of her family." (Observer)

"[A] noteworthy debut ... Lee's take on contemporary intergenerational cultural friction is wide-ranging, sympathetic and well worth reading" (Publishers Weekly)

"A big, juicy, commercial Korean-American coming-of-age novel ... Casey's story is a fabulous one" (Entertainment Weekly)

Descrizione del libro:

A stunning debut - a big, vibrant novel of class, race and cultural clash set against the backdrop of New York's Korean community

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• Editore: Hutchinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0091921082
• ISBN 13: 9780091921088
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576