The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings - Hardcover

Tan, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399150749 ISBN 13: 9780399150746

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

In her first book of nonfiction, bestselling novelist Amy Tan shares her personal philosophy of fate.

Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes-from writing stories, decorating her house with charms, learning to ski, and living with squirrels, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease, surviving natural disasters, and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist.

With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen-in her own life and beyond-but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all.

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Review:

Wickedly funny and honest. ("O Magazine")

A melodramatic, tragic and comedic tale . . . Tan is refreshingly candid. ("The Baltimore Sun")

Sharp and invigorating . . . fertile reading. ("The New York Times Book Review")
Wickedly funny and honest. ("O Magazine")
A melodramatic, tragic and comedic tale . . . Tan is refreshingly candid. ("The Baltimore Sun")

About the Author:

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which is now a PBS production called Sagwa, for which Tan is a creative consultant and writer. Tan was also a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399150749
• ISBN 13: 9780399150746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288