Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Softcover

Li, Yiyun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812980158 ISBN 13: 9780812980158

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2011

Synopsis

[ Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Li, Yiyun ( Author ) ] { Paperback } 2011

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Review:

"[Resonates] with emotion . . . Gold Boy, Emerald Girl is an example of the treasure an artist can fashion from the raw materials of ordinary existence."--Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

"A moving and unforgettable experience . . . Yiyun Li's characters, like the stories they inhabit, often seem at first glance quiet, modest and unassuming. [But] there is considerable drama hidden beneath the placid surfaces they present to the world."--The Washington Post

"Yiyun Li is a marvel. . . . Her writing is lyrical, circular and finely etched, with an emotional impact that both satisfies and surprises."--NPR

"Li has been called 'China's Chekhov, ' and it's easy to see why: With their quiet authority, exquisite control, and illumination of those quicksilver moments on which entire lives pivot, [her] tales lodge in your rib cage long after you've finished reading."--Marie Claire

About the Author:

Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction--Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl--and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Under 40" fiction writers to watch. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and their two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0812980158
• ISBN 13: 9780812980158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256