傻瓜猫.第一册,胎记的来历

作者：  (加)谭恩美著

出版社：四川美术出版社,2010

简介：　　“SAGWA”这个银幕上可爱的卡通形象，让无数小朋友都渴望拥有的小猫，在现实生活中是真实存在的。《傻瓜猫》（SAGWA）的作者是著名的美籍华裔作家谭恩美(Amy Tan),在她幼年时期曾养过一只暹罗猫，这只猫咪伴随她一同成长，并且成为她生活中不可缺少的一部分，最终这只猫咪在她怀中逝去了。为了纪念这只可爱的猫咪，作者于1994年出版了儿童小说《傻瓜猫》（SAGWA)，勇敢、自信、可爱、富有冒险精神的“傻瓜猫”(SAGWA)诞生了！ 　　2001年加拿大CinéGroupe公司将《傻瓜猫》（SAGWA)小说改编为80集的同名大型电视系列动画片。故事通过一只生活在古代中国官府里会用尾巴写字的猫咪“傻瓜猫”(SAGWA)的成长历程，展示了中国独特的人文环境、有趣的风俗习惯、宽广包容的道德情怀、博大精深的文化内涵。故事情节简洁明快、妙趣横生，角色造型独特、个性鲜明。通过描写一次次探险经历，让小观众和古灵精怪的小猫咪“傻瓜猫”(SAGWA)一起来认知天下、了解世界的多面性。 　　本书是傻瓜猫系列卡通版之一，将五集动画改编为一册图书，保持图书与动画片故事内容的一致，通过傻瓜猫和他的兄弟伙伴的生活经历，帮助5-12岁儿童解决个人及社会问题，相信自己的与众不同，平和对待得与失，勇敢面对未知的未来，学会充满自信的面对生活。 　　本册《胎记的来历》着重介绍了傻瓜脸上花纹的由来，帮助孩子懂得一些个人行为会对社会产生不同的影响。　　

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简介：Includes essays by Stephen Dunn, Margaret Atwood, Cathy N. Davidson, Amy Tan, Eudora Welty, E.B. White, Paule Marshall, Elie Wiesel, Linda Hogan, Peter Elbow, William Least Heat-Moon, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath, Donald Murray, Roger Angell, Mary Ruffin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frederick Douglass, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Patricia J. Williams, Isaac Asimov, Thomas S. Kuhn, Jane Brody, Mike Rose, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Zitkala-Sa, Jonathan Kozol, Stephanie Coontz, Bobbie Ann Mason, Scott Russell Sanders, Joan Didion, Kathleen Norris, Lewis Thomas, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Richard Rodriguez, James Thurber, Richard Wright, Alan M. Dershowitz, Susanne K. Langer, Judy Brady, Nancy Mairs, Charles Darwin, Deborah Tannen, Stephen Jay Gould, Vicki Hearne, Bailey White, Raymond Carver, Martin Luther King Jr., Lani Guinier, John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Reich, Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan Swift, Lynda Barry, Terry Tempest Williams, Gilbert Highet, Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, and Anne Sexton.

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简介：Identity and belonging are just two of the many themes Asian-American writers have explored. This new edition in the "Bloom鈥檚 Modern Critical Views" series offers fresh critical evaluations of this important body of American literature. Canonical writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan are discussed in addition to the voices and traditions that have emerged from the United States鈥?diverse South and East Asian communities. This volume is complemented by a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Seed's (American literature, U. of Liverpool, UK) compilation of 53 essays and readings by 53 international academics provides scholars and students an accessible overview of fiction published in the US since the end of WWI. Sixteen chapters examine the variety of genres, traditions, and subject areas, including the urban novel, the western, modern Gothic, the short story, Southern fiction, Jewish American fiction, African American fiction, detective and hard-boiled/noir works, Chicano fiction, Black humor writing, works about the Vietnam War, and Native American fiction. The remaining 37 chapters offer critical analysis of 37 writers, from canonical literary figures, such as Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Wolfe, to popular contemporary writers, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Alice Walker. Annotation 漏2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fictionpresents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War.聽 Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fieldsWritten in an approachable and accessible styleCovers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelistsProvides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay  

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简介：Includes short stories, poems, plays, and essays by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Frank O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, Sandra Cisneros, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Stevie Smith, Countee Cullen, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Larkin, Anthony Hecht, Peter Meinke, Robert Mezey, June Jordan, Bruce Bennett, Deborah Pope, Molly Peacock, Katherine McAlpine, Jill Bialosky, Nick Flynn, Sophocles, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Joan Didion, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, James Thurber, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Harlan Ellison, Amy Tan, Tennyson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Claude McKay, Bertolt Brecht, W.H. Auden, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Marge Piercy, Stephen Dunn, Rober t Pinsky, Nikki Giovanni, Carolyn Forche, Henrik Ibsen, August Wilson, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King Jr., William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Walker, Barry Lopez, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Erdrich, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Anne Sexton, Etheridge Knight, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Wole Soyinka, Linda Hogan, Taslima Nasrin, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, Athol Fugard, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Irwin Shaw, Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Sappho, Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, John Donne, Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, May Sarton, Robert Hayden, Anthony Hecht, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lord, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Gary Soto, Susan Glaspell, Erich Fromm, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Anne Porter, Bernard Malamud, Bessie Head, Tim O'Brien, Leslie Marmon Silko, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Antonio Machado, Wilfred Owen, Pablo Neruda, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Maxine Kumin, Mary Oliver, Samuel Beckett, Woody Allen, Harvey Fierstein, Mark Twain, Jessica Mitford, and others.

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简介："The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions." "For the seventh edition, the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs and concerns of today's students and general readers. Over 1,000 new entries have been added, ranging from new writers - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Marber, David Mitchell, Arundhati Roy - to increased coverage of writers and literary movements from around the world. Coverage of American literature has been substantially increased, with new entries on writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Amy Tan and on movements and publications. Contextual and historical coverage has also been expanded, with new entries on European history and culture, post-colonial literature, as well as writers and literary movements from around the world that have influenced English literature.". "The Companion has always been a quick and dependable source of reference for students, and the new edition confirms its pre-eminent role as the go-to resource of first choice. All entries have been reviewed, and details of new works, biographies, and criticism have been brought up to date. So also has coverage of the themes, approaches and concepts encountered by students today, from terms to articles on literary theory and theorists. There is increased coverage of writers from around the world, as well as from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and of contextual topics, including film and television, music, and art. Cross-referencing has been thoroughly updated, with stronger linking from writers to thematic and conceptual entries. Meanwhile coverage of popular genres such as children's literature, science fiction, biography, reportage, crime fiction, fantasy or travel literature has been increased substantially, with new entries on writers from Philip Pullman to Anne Frank and from Anais Nin to Douglas Adams." "The seventh edition of this classic Companion - now under the editorship of Dinah Birch, assisted by a team of 28 distinguished associate editors, and over 150 contributors - ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介："The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions." "For the seventh edition, the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs and concerns of today鈥檚 students and general readers. Over 1,000 new entries have been added, ranging from new writers - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Marber, David Mitchell, Arundhati Roy - to increased coverage of writers and literary movements from around the world. Coverage of American literature has been substantially increased, with new entries on writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Amy Tan and on movements and publications. Contextual and historical coverage has also been expanded, with new entries on European history and culture, post-colonial literature, as well as writers and literary movements from around the world that have influenced English literature.". "The Companion has always been a quick and dependable source of reference for students, and the new edition confirms its pre-eminent role as the go-to resource of first choice. All entries have been reviewed, and details of new works, biographies, and criticism have been brought up to date. So also has coverage of the themes, approaches and concepts encountered by students today, from terms to articles on literary theory and theorists. There is increased coverage of writers from around the world, as well as from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and of contextual topics, including film and television, music, and art. Cross-referencing has been thoroughly updated, with stronger linking from writers to thematic and conceptual entries. Meanwhile coverage of popular genres such as children鈥檚 literature, science fiction,pan belleza. Al incio of

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 聽In this important new study, Judith Oster looks at the literature of Chinese Americans and Jewish Americans in relation to each other. Examining what is most at issue for both groups as they live between two cultures, languages, and environments, Oster focuses on the struggles of protagonists to form identities that are necessarily bicultural and always in process. Recognizing what poststructuralism has demonstrated regarding the instability of the subject and the impossibility of a unitary identity, Oster contends that the writers of these works are attempting to shore up the fragments, to construct, through their texts, some sort of wholeness and to answer at least partially the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong?聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Oster also examines the relationship of the reader to these texts. When encountering texts written by and about 鈥渙thers,鈥?readers enter a world different from their own, only to find that the book has become mirrorlike, reflecting aspects of themselves: they encounter identity struggles that are familiar but writ large, more dramatic, and set in alien environments.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Among the figures Oster considers are writers of autobiographical works like Maxine Hong Kingston and Eva Hoffman and writers of fiction: Amy Tan, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Lan Samantha Chang, and Frank Chin. In explicating their work, Oster uses Lacan's idea of the 鈥渕irror stage,鈥?research in language acquisition and bilingualism, the reader-response theories of Iser and Wimmers, and the identity theories of Charles Taylor, Emile Benveniste, and others.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Oster provides detailed analyses of mirrors and doubling in bicultural texts; the relationships between language and identity and between language and culture; and code-switching and interlanguage (English expressed in a foreign syntax). She discusses food and hunger as metaphors that express the urgent need to hear and tell stories on the part of those forging a bicultural identity. She also shows how American schooling can undermine the home culture's deepest values, exacerbating children's conflicts within their families and within themselves. In a chapter on theories of autobiography, Oster looks at the act of writing and how the page becomes a home that bicultural writers create for themselves. Written in an engaging, readable style, this is a valuable contribution to the field of multicultural literary criticism.  

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简介："Chinese American Literature since the 1850s" traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This essential volume, a much-needed introduction and guide to the field, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants in the United States. Using a fresh approach that combines literary and historical scholarship, Xiao-huang Yin covers representative works from the 1850s to the present. These include journalistic and autobiographical texts from nineteenth-century Chinese authors; writings on the walls of Angel Island, the main Asian immigrant arrival point on the West Coast; writings of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century "cultivated Chinese," students and scholars who came to America to advance their educations; and the work of more recent authors who have entered the canon, including Sui Sin Far, Jade Snow Wong, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan. As the only volume that covers the literature written by immigrant authors in the Chinese language, Xiao-huang Yin's book significantly enlarges the scope of Chinese and Asian American studies. This body of literature, including works by immigrant writers such as Chen Ruoxi, Yu Lihua, and Zhang Xiguo, reflects the high percentage of Chinese Americans for whom the Chinese language remains an integral part of everyday life. A core text for students and scholars of Asian American studies, "Chinese American Literature since the 1850s" is an important resource for literary critics, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in diaspora studies, transnationalism, cultural studies, race and ethnicity, and the immigrant experiences in which Chinese American literature is embedded.

BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER, THE

作者：  Amy Tan　编

出版社：Random House US 2011年11月

简介：　　At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets ofpapers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of RuthYoung. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other,Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be theprotagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed withAlzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, bornin China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and familyhistory, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her minddeteriorates.　　A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwritingself-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or trueidentity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angryone. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--alongwith her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator todecipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tellher about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. Shewould sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else todo."　　Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portionof The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote,mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man inthe 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a successionof tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eyeof her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makesclear, it's not an enviable setting:　　I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarkedland dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls,the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw howall the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face,sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan ofink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a localdoctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. Andindeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and hersister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape fromChina. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner,particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she didin her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts toexplore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generationAmericans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins --Thistext refers to the Hardcover edition.

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作者：  (美) Amy Tan原著

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简介：本书以经典性和流行性并存的名著《隐形人》为素材，以明晰的风格和地道的语言而著称。本书包括著作的创作背景，人物分析，主题解析，篇章讲解，重要引文释义，作品档案，并且附有相关的思考题，推荐的论文题，阅读后的小测验，要点注释，以及推荐阅读篇目。 本书的编排使你不仅仅停留在对名著内容上的了解，更可迅速、全面、深入地掌握著作的全部资料，同时也满足了对文化做进一步了解和研究的需求。 蓝星精辟、明晰的编写风格将“半天阅读一本名著”的想法变为现实，帮你在有限的闲暇内阅读更多的书，在地道的语言环境中迅速提高英语水平，丰富文学内涵，增加谈资。 “哈佛蓝星双语名著导读”源自哈佛大学，学生们将名著阅读与文学学习融会贯通，编写成为蓝星笔记，成为风行全美的名著速读指南。 蓝星笔记以导读的形式、明晰的风格带你体验“由厚变薄一由薄变厚”的神奇阅读之旅，将“半天阅读一本名著”的想法变为现实。让你在有限的闲中读更多的书。 精挑细选的50本名著，精辟地道的当代英语，在有限的时间内迅速提高英语水平，增加文学内涵，丰富谈资。 蓝星闪耀，照你前行。更多>>

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简介："Of all the ancestors claimed by a fine piece of prose," the editors note, "the most important is the prose from which the writer learned his craft. Reading well precedes writing well." Their collection of classic and contemporary essays, stories, and poems includes selections from Swift to Amy Tan. New to the latest edition: pieces by Raymond Carver, Julia Alvarez, Joan Didion, Camille Paglia, Wallace Stegner, and others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：　　Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing." 　　 King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote. 　　 King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　 　　 　　 As his diehard fans know, King is a member of a writers-only rock 'n' roll band (Amy Tan is also a member), and this recording starts off with a sampling of their music. It may sound unsettling to some, but King quickly puts listeners at ease with his confident, candid and breezy tone. Here, King tells the story of his childhood and early influences, describes his development as a writer, offers extensive advice on technique (read: write tight and no bullshit) and finally recounts his well-known experience of being hit by a drunk driver while walking on a country road in 1999 and the role that his work has played in his rehabilitation. While some of his guidance is not exactly revolutionary (he recommends The Elements of Style as a must-have reference), other revelations that vindicate authors of popular fiction, like himself, as writers, such as his preference for stressing character and situation over plot, are engrossing. He also offers plenty of commonsense advice on how to organize a workspace and structure one's day. While King's comical childhood anecdotes and sober reflections on his accident may be appreciated while driving to work or burning calories on a treadmill, the book's main exercise does not work as well in the audio format. King's strongest recommendation, after all, is that writers must be readers, and despite his adept performance, aspiring authors might find that they would absorb more by picking up the book. Based on the Scribner hardcover (Forecasts, July 31, 2000). 　　 　　Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. 　　 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 　　 　　 　　 　　Adult/High School-By the time King was 14, the scads of rejection slips he'd accumu-lated grew too heavy for the nail in the wall on which they were mounted. He replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. This straight-up book inspires without being corny, and teens suspicious of adult rhap-sodies to perseverance will let down their guard and be put at ease by the book's gritty conversational tone. The first 100 pages are pure memoir-paeans to the horror movies and fanzines that captivated King as a child, the expected doses of misadventure (weeks of detention for distributing his own satirical zine at school; building an electromagnet that took out the electricity of half a street), and hard times. King writes just as passion-ately in the second half of the book, where the talk turns to his craft. He provides plenty of samples of awkward or awful writing and contrasts them with polished versions. Hand this title to reluctant readers and reluctant writers, sit back, and watch what happens.-Emily Lloyd, Fairfax County Public Library, VA 　　 　　Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. 　　 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　 　　 　　 In 1981 King penned Danse Macabre, a thoughtful analysis of the horror genre. Now he is treating his vast readership to another glimpse into the intellect that spawns his astoundingly imaginative works. This volume, slim by King standards, manages to cover his life from early childhood through the aftermath of the 1999 accident that nearly killed him. Along the way, King touts the writing philosophies of William Strunk and Ernest Hemingway, advocates a healthy appetite for reading, expounds upon the subject of grammar, critiques a number of popular writers, and offers the reader a chance to try out his theories. But most important, we who climb aboard for this ride with the master spend a few pleasant hours under the impression that we know what it!s like to think like Stephen King. Recommended for anyone who wants to write and everyone who loves to read. 　　-"Nancy McNicol, Hagaman Memorial Lib., East Haven, CT 　　Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　 　　 　　 King could write a phone book and make it not only a best-seller but also gripping reading. So expect his fiction-writing how-to to be a megahit that reaches plenty of readers besides wanna-be novelists. It is riveting, thanks to King's customary flair for the vernacular and conversational tone, and to the fact that he flanks his advice with two memoirs, the latter recalling his near-fatal 1999 stint as the victim of a bad driver. The first memoir, "C.V.," concentrates on his life as a writer, which began in childhood. It took some time to publish for money, but ever since Carrie garnered $400,000 for paperback rights, he has been the Stephen King. He loves to write, though he emphasizes it is far more work than play. Loving it is essential, though, and having a good "toolbox," full of vocabulary, grammar, and the usage and mechanics prescribed by Strunk and White's perdurable Elements of Style, is next most important. It is invaluable to read a lot, and the key to novel writing is following the story--not a plot that can be charted or outlined, but the developments natural for the characters, given the situation they are in. For himself, King says, good health and a good marriage have been crucial, never more so than during his recovery from the accident. Good advice and a good, ordinary life, relayed in spunky, vivid prose, are the prime ingredients of what must be considered not at all the usual writer's guide. Ray Olson 　　Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　 　　 　　 Generous, lucid, and passionate, King (Hearts in Atlantis, 1999, etc.) offers lessons and encouragement to the beginning writer, along with a warts-and-all account of a less-than-carefree life. The composition of this memoir, King's first nonfiction work since Danse Macabre, was interrupted when he was almost killed by a drunk driver in 1999. The first portion of it shares the making of the writer: his impoverished but experientially rich childhood, his first efforts and influences, the threadbare existence he and his wife Tabitha lived until the publication of Carrie, and his remarkable success thereafter. There are some delightful anecdotes here. In a late-night creative frenzy, his wife sleeping in their London hotel room, King asks the concierge for a place to write and is led to Rudyard Kipling's desk. Though intimidated, King proceeds to write the beginnings of Misery, then thanks the concierge, who tells him, "Kipling died there actually. . . . While writing." King discusses his problems with drugs and alcohol and offers an assessment of his own work (he doesn't think much of Insomnia or Rose Madder, but he liked Cujo and regrets that he was too drunk at the time to remember writing any of it). Written largely while recovering from his accident, the rest of the memoir answers the questions King hears from aspiring writers, as well as the questions they should be asking, but don't. With examples that reach from T.S. Eliot to pulp fiction, there's much trenchant material here on how to construct a story, how to revise, and how to go about building a career. King stresses character and situation over plotting, and insists on basics-like Strunk and White and, above all, endless reading and writing. While his proposed output might intimidate some, his enthusiasm wins out.A useful book for any young writer, and a must for fans, this is unmistakably King: friendly, sharply perceptive, cheerfully vulgar, sometimes adolescent in his humor, sometimes impatient with fools, but always sincere in his love of language and writing -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 　　 　　 　　 The Washington Post Book World Combines autobiography and admonition, inspirations and instruction. It's an enjoyable mix. -- Review 　　 　　 　　 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)The best book on writing. Ever! 　　 　　USA TodayA fascinating look at the evolution and redemption of one of the hardest-working storytellers writing today. 　　 　　The Washington Post Book WorldCombines autobiography and admonition, inspirations and instruction. It's an enjoyable mix.　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Johnson (art history) and Oliver (dance, women's studies; both teach at Providence College in Rhode Island) have edited a selection of readings on women working in diverse media, including dance, music, installation, photography, architecture, poetry, literature and theater. The works of Laurie Anderson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jane Campion, Judy Chicago, Zaha Hadid, Pauline Oliveros, Yvonne Rainier, Cindy Sherman, Amy Tan, and Paula Vogel are considered for the approach each displays to issues of gender and feminism in markedly accessible writing. The contributors are academics; two are graduate students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Lives in Two Languagesexplores identity and multiculturalism through readings that aim to help teachers-in-training gain better insight into their students' lives. Lives in Two Languagesfocuses on the experience of multicultural authors--like Richard Rodriguez, Amy Tan, Eva Hoffman, Chang-rae Lee, and Julia Alvarez--whose experiences can be related to anyone who has moved from one culture or subculture to another. As such, this text is an excellent comprehensive introduction to the multicultural experience for teachers and educators in all disciplines, as well as of interest to anyone interested in language culture and psychological process of identity.  

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简介：In Rick Bass' The Hermit's Story, a woman battles the elements on a journey by dog sled in Canada, in Hester Kaplan's Live Life King-Sized a man books into a Caribbean resort to die, and in James Spencer's The Robbers of Karnataka, a tourist in India seeking enlightenment encounters bandits instead. "What I look for most in a story," writes Amy Tan in her introduction to this year's volume of The Best American Short Stories, "what I crave, what I found in these twenty-one, is a distinctive voice that tells a story only that voice can tell." Tan found herself drawn to wonderfully original stories that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. In this vibrant collection, fantasy and truth coexist brilliantly in new works by writers such as Annie Proulx, Lorrie Moore, Nathan Englander, and Pam Houston. "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," by Junot Diaz, features a young man trying to stave off heartbreak in a sacred cave in Santo Domingo. In "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," by Chitra Divakaruni, a mother moves from India to California to be closer to her son, only to sacrifice something crucial along the way. In Melissa Hardy's haunting story "The Uncharted Heart," a geologist unearths a shocking secret in the wilds of northern Ontario. "Maybe I'm still that kid who wants to see things I've never seen before," writes Tan. "I like being startled by images I never could have conjured up myself." With twenty-one tales, each a fabulously rich journey into a different world, The Best American Short Stories 1999 is sure to surprise and delight.

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简介：Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code TANJOY at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.In exploring the relationship between femininity and citizenship, liberal feminism and American racial discourse, and women's domestic abuse and human rights, the author suggests that Asian American women not only mediate sexuality's construction as a determiner of loyalty but also manipulate that construction as a tool of political persuasion in their writing. The language of betrayal, she argues, offers a potent rhetorical means of signaling how belonging is policed by individuals and by the state. Bow's bold analysis exposes the stakes behind maintaining ethnic, feminist, and national alliances, particularly for women who claim multiple loyalties.  

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简介：One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China's future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China's building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl's life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang's Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people - "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening. - Publisher.

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简介：Winnie and Helen have kept each other''s worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie''s story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie''s coming to America in 1949. 作者简介 Amy Tan was born in Oakland,California,in 1952,and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.She graduated from high school in Montreux,Switzerland,and received her master''s degree in linguistics from San Jose State University.Tan is the authouof The Hundred Secret Senses,The Joy Luck Club,and two books for children,The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat.