Tan amy author (29 risultati)

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 30th Printing: September 1993. 332 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased, skewed and slanted spine. Light foxing on page edges. Robert Foothorap (Author Photo) (illustratore).

Condizione: Brand New. 384 pages. 5.16x0.94x7.76 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.206. Baba (Papa) born in Manchuria in 1928, his daughter Belle, set out to write and paint (beautiful drawings and illustrations throughout the book) to preserve his memories of his coming of age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. A tale of a prominent Manchurian family who experienced the Japanese occupation, the Russian onslaught and the Chinese civil war. clean tight copy slight rubbings to d/j. The Author (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. later printing edition. 288 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. later printing edition. 288 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 368 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 416 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 416 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Pinting. Text/NEW & Bright. 1996 First Edition, Printing "A". Illustrated softcover/NF; w/faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Taiwan born, Californian Belle Yang (1960 -) is an artist, author, graphic novelist and children's book writer. After graduation from Univ.of CA, Santa Cruz, she spent 3 years in Beijing, China to be present during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This, on her return home, her first book, was completed in 1994. In Chinese, "Baba" is simply "Papa" in English. This is biography of Belle Yang's father, Joseph Yang (1928- ), born in Manchuria, coming of age in northern China in the 1930s to 1940s, migrated to Taiwan before the U.S. Life of an heir to the prominent House of Yang of the northeastern extremity of the Great Wall, who knew of early Japanese invasion, Russian onslaught, fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty, ensuring flood of "White Russians" escaping the fall of Russian tsars at the hand of communist "Red Russians, and the ensuing rise of Chinese communism after World War II. A poetic portrait of Joseph Yang and that of 1930s, 1940s & 1950's China --- a song in words with watercolor renditions from a daughter. The 1937 Sino-Japanese invasion, marking the beginning of World War II (5 years before Pearl Harbor), set the last Ch'ing Dynasty heir Pu-yi in a puppet regime when China was already flooded with "White Russians" upon the fall of their Tsar. This is Baba's life --- a story of war, social upheavals & resiliency. Of the author's watercolor paintings, one depicts a tranquil rural setting against bombs falling far off --- it is told that then peasants, though knowing full well what bullets were, first thought bombs were but an odd phenomenon of bottles falling from the heavens. Belle Yang (Author & Illustrator) (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. later printing edition. 288 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Flexiback. Condizione: Brand New. 320 pages. 6.30x1.18x8.11 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 2nd edition. 400 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 368 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. large print edition. 496 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 416 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Amy Tan directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. Robert Foothorap (Author photo); Andrea Ho (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition embossed dark blue/green boards and navy blue cloth spine with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated/photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Amy Tan; Preliminary Page Quotes by Albert Camus and Anonymous; A Note to the Reader; Acknowledgments and Dedication. A former owner signature is neatly scripted at the upper edge of the inner front board. Signed by the author, Amy Tan, with thin blue ink on a Palm Beach Literary Society bookplate which is neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. "Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China -- dubbed the true Shangri-La -- and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers as they come to discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tribal curses. And then, on Christmas morning, eleven of the travelers boat across a misty lake for a sunrise cruise -- and disappear. Drawing from the current political reality in Burma and woven with pure confabulation, Amy Tan's picaresque novel poses the question: How can we discern what is real and what is fiction, in everything we see? How do we know what to believe? Saving Fish from Drowning finds sly truth in the absurd: a reality TV show called Darwin's Fittest, a repressive regime known as SLORC, two cheroot-smoking twin children hailed as divinities, and a raging tribe hiding in the jungle -- where the spirits of disaster known as Nats lurk, as do the specters of the fabled Younger White Brother and a British illusionist who was not who he was worshipped to be. With her signature "idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery" (Los Angeles Times), Amy Tan spins a provocative and mesmerizing tale about the mind and the heart of the individual, the actions we choose, the moral questions we might ask ourselves, and above all, the deeply personal answers we seek when happy endings are seemingly impossible." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Saving Fish from Drowning is a profoundly wise and yet often laugh-out-loud-funny book about the relationship between the individual heart and the universal soul. This is a can't-p[ut-down read that offers heartache and humor, hope and healing. Amy Tan has long been one of the great literary treasures of our culture, and Saving Fish from Drowing is perhaps her finest book." - Robert Olen Butler. Dewey, Amanda (book design); Werner, Honi (jacket design and imaging); Foothorap, Robert (author photograph); Wier, Nevada (jacket photograph) (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Amy Tan directly on the title-page, additionally presented to John Guare, an American playwright and screenwriter, best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation. Robert Foothorap (Author photo); Gretchen Schields (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo, xv, 245 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$19.95." Light shelf wear and soiling. Small staining on top and bottom edges of text block. Signed flat by Atwood on title page. Shelved in Fiction Anthology. 1406189. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…