I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage International) - Softcover

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307454592 ISBN 13: 9780307454591

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life In her singular voice--humble, elegiac, practical--writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns 65. Full description

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Review:

"A brilliantly penned memoir written in a fluid, narrative poetry genre. . . . Gritty...and energetic all in one breath." --San Francisco Book Review

"Rich. . . . Only a few older writers--poets or not--can manage this balance of self-amusement and genuine longing. It's an effect fully equal to the shaded tones of Kingston's best writing."--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living." --Boston Globe

"A gentle, meandering memoir, organized as a long poem. . . . Cinematic and sensual." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Delights as an unconventional, intimate and intensely personal life story. . . . Forcing a slower, calmer contemplation of Hong Kingston's words. . . . Moving. . . . Whether she's recalling the birth of her son or the time she was arrested for protesting the Iraq war, Kingston's memories are pungent and vivid." --Post and Courier

"She leads the reader on a tour of her native China, her rich language often matching the lushness of the landscape itself. . . . Effortlessly transitions from personal experience to the worlds of her characters. . . . As much an examination of the nature of time and aging as it is an exploration of cultural identity and origin, I Love a Broad Margin to my Life contains both moments of dark alienation and buoyant transcendence." --Time Out New York

"Blurring the lines among poetry, fiction, and memoir. . . . A meditation on form and formlessness, on meaning and identity, and how the most essential truths often exist outside the boundaries, in something of an ur-state." --Los Angeles Times

"She seems at peace with the necessary sacrifices and negotiations she's made as a writer, wife and mother. Yet she's also acutely aware of her mortality and determined to carve out the free time to which she feels entitled at last. . . . Written in a dreamlike, impressionistic style. . . . Takes on a kind of mythical quality." --The Boston Globe

"Engaging. . . . Startling." --Heller McAlpin, NPR

"A sprawling, globe-hopping long poem. . . . Kingston is thinking deeply about the act of writing itself. . . . I found myself compelled by Kingston's efforts to capture the disjointed landscape wrought by globalization. . . . Touching. . . . Offers its readers a memorable set of images, narratives, and questions that continue to push against the foundations of memoir, just as her earlier work, The Woman Warrior, did four decades earlier." --Hyphen Magazine

"A brilliantly penned memoir. . . . She shares cultural experiences with a primal pentameter that may equal or surpass anything her readers have ever experienced." --San Francisco Book Review

Book Description:

An imaginative autobiography from one America's most important female writers; along with Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston defines a generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0307454592
• ISBN 13: 9780307454591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240