No-no Boy - Softcover

Okada, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295955252 ISBN 13: 9780295955254

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1978

Synopsis

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.

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Review:

"Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature."-Gordon Hirabayashi, Pacific Affairs "Nisei will recognize the authenticity of the idioms Okada's characters use, as well as his descriptions of the familiar Issei and Nisei mannerisms that make them come alive. "-Bill Hosokawa, Pacific Citizen

About the Author:

John Okada was born in Seattle in 1923. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, attended the University of Washington and Columbia University, and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. No-No Boy is his only published novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0295955252
• ISBN 13: 9780295955254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264