jakuch (5 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. Y. Honolulu. 2021. University of Hawaii Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780824888831. Translated by Liza Dalby. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. 248 pages. paperback. keywords: Japan / History. DESCRIPTION - Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuch? Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun. even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along the way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress, lover, role model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn, she has reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving reflection. Basho (Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby, enjoins readers to accompany the author as she travels again over the familiar terrain of her life story, journeying through the places where she once lived, loved, suffered, and learned. - from the Foreword by Rebecca L. Copeland. In this scintillating work of autobiographical fiction, Setouchi Jakuch? recalls with almost photographic clarity scenes from her past: growing up in the Tokushima countryside in the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman, and in Tokyo as a young student experiencing the heady freedom of college life; escaping to Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged marriage and an ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo, with its lively community of artists and writers, to establish herself as a novelist. Throughout, Jakuch? is propelled by a burning desire to write and make a living as one. Her memories, remarkably sharp and clear, also provide a fascinating picture of everyday life in Japan in the years surrounding World War II. inventory #46349.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and titling blind embossed to front cover; 223pp; colorful photographs and illustrations throughout. From the library of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead, with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown and his inked ownership to front endpaper. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has light wear to upper spine panel, else Near Fine. Catalogue for art exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, March 30 - April 29, 2012. [88510].