THE COFFIN TREE - Hardcover

Law-Yone, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039452957X ISBN 13: 9780394529578

Publisher: Knopf, 1983

Synopsis

A young, well-born Burmese woman and her mentally unstable older brother find themselves in New York City, where desperation and hysteria hound them and where the heroine-narrator must learn to survive

About this title

Review:

It combines the exquisite palpability of dreams with an earthy sense of irony...an uncanny talent for defining the boundaries of sanity and making madness palpable....A virtuoso piece of writing. - New York Times Book Review; ""The reader must move to exotic places, to Burma in the beginning, to New York squalor in the middle, to a mental ward for an affirmative finale. The reader must move almost without transitions but with bags of empathy, crammed full. Must move, will be moved."" - Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Wendy Law-Yone was horn in Mandalay, Burma, and raised in Rangoon. She is currently the David T. K. Wong Follow at the University of East Anglia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 039452957X
• ISBN 13: 9780394529578
• Binding: Hardcover