On Gold Mountain - Softcover

See, Lisa

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ISBN 10: 0099409828 ISBN 13: 9780099409823

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1999

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381 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Sweeping Portrait That Is In Particular And Universal,telling The Story Not Only Of One Family, But Of The Chinese People In America- And Of America Itself, A Country That Both Welcomes And Reviles Its Immigrants Like No Other Culture In The World.

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A family portrait that is at once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America, and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.

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'Weaves together fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life ... Enviably entertaining' Amy Tan 'Astonishing...A comprehensive and exhaustively researched account of a Chinese-American family...that juggles such explosive elements as race, class, tradition, prejudice, poverty, and great wealth in new and relatively unexpected combinations' Los Angeles Times 'Lovingly rendered ... a vivid tableau of a family and an era' People '[See] has done a gallant job of fashioning anecdote, fable and fact into an engaging account' The New York Times Book Review

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