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Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
ISBN: 0345457374
ISBN-13: 9780345457370
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Ruth Young and Art Kamen live together in San Francisco, and the deterioration of their relationships renders Ruth unable to speak. Her Chinese mother, LuLing, who now has Alzheimer's, is another complicating factor in her life, but the diary she kept as a young woman still exists, and when Ruth reads it she comes to a better understanding of her family's dark history, her mother's sadness, and her own problems. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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"Spanning the 20th century, the book raises intriguing issues about the nature of literacy, the complications of immigration and the unpredictable lessons of aging. Tan's style is lively, witty, suspenseful and rich in historical detail....This very good novel could have been a brilliant one if not for [the] last 40 pages....Still, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER is a strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes and suspenseful mystery." -- Valerie Miner
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The novel builds slowly, and a few sequences...seem inexplicably disproportionate. But the elaborate preparation pays generous dividends in the stunning final 50 or so pages....Tan strikes gold once again."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 400
Publisher's Notes
Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
New York: Ballentine Books, 2003. Reading Group discussion guide included.. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. ( more information)
Offered by GreenBooks (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter : A Novel
Tan, Amy
Ballantine, 2003. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, edgewear to the cover including a small nick to the bottom edge of front cover, handling crease to rear cover, and other light shopwear. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket. ( more information)
Offered by John R. Belliveau Bookseller (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
Ballantine Books, 2003. Later Edition. Trade Paperback. Good+. Edge wear. Front cover slightly creased. Detailed information and/or scans available upon request. ( more information)
Offered by The Attic Bookstore (United States)
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Bonesetter's Daughter: A Ballantine Reader's Circle Book
Tan, Amy
Ballantine Books, 2003. Trade Paperback. Good. Moderate cover edge wear & cover corner creasing, minor shelf wear."The same fascination with mother-daughter relationships that made Tan's debut novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), so captivating drives her newest, an even more polished and provocative work. Compulsively readable and beautifully structured around three richly metaphorical themes--bones, ghosts, and ink--this novel tells the stories of three generations of women, beginning at the turn of the twentieth century in a small Chinese village, where the bonesetter, a skilled healer, defies tradition and teaches his daughter everything he knows. Intelligent and willful, she vehemently rejects the marriage proposal of the vulgar coffinmaker, who curses her, thus setting in motion a tragic sequence of events that continues to unfold a century later in San Francisco, where a Chinese American woman finally reads the memoir her mother wrote for her. Although Ruth's a ghostwriter for New Agey self-help books, the advice she formulates hasn't helped her achieve genuine intimacy with her live-in boyfriend or cope with her argumentative mother, who has long been haunted by the ghost of a woman she calls Precious Auntie. Widowed since Ruth was a toddler, China-born and -raised calligraphy artist Luling still speaks stilted English in spite of decades of California life, and now she appears to be afflicted with Alzheimer's. As Ruth moves back home to care for Luling, she is assailed by memories of her own difficult childhood, then discovers that Precious Auntie, the bonesetter's daughter, is actually her grandmother. As Tan tells the spellbinding stories of these three strong, self-sacrificing women in this lucent novel of deep feelings and gentle humor, she weaves in stripes of vivid Chinese history, including the discovery of Peking Man, ponders what's bred in the bone, and celebrates the preservation of family history as an act of love and a conduit for forgiveness." ( more information)
Offered by Yesterday's Muse (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 2003 Pos on ffep, light shelf wear to corners, light edgewear, creases on spine, sticker residue on back cover. . Trade Paperback. Good. ( more information)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
NY USA: Ballantine, 2003 Trade Paperback/Paper Wraps. VG, Reading Wear. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
Offered by Everybody's Bookstore (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
Ballantine Books, 2003. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued. . New. No dust jacket as issued.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. . ( more information)
Offered by The Written Page Books (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
Ballantine Books. Used - Very Good. Condition: Previously read, moderate to light wear.; bkcs ( more information)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Qty: 45)
Amy Tan
Ballantine Books, 04-Feb-2003. Paperback. NEW. Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20081117191930G ( more information)
Offered by A1Books (United States)
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tan, Amy
New York, NY, USA: BALLANTINE BOOKS, 2001. Good. No Jacket Good. No Jacket SOFT COVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. HAS A PICTORIAL FRONT COVER. HAS NO MARKINGS OR HIGHLIGHTING. THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER DRAMATICALLY CHRONICLES THE TORTURED, DEVOTED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LULING YOUNG AND HER DAUGHTER RUTH....A STRONG NOVEL, FILLED WITH IDIOSYNCRATIC, SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS; HAUNTING IMAGES; HISTORICAL COMPLEXITY; SIGNIFICANT CONTEMPORARY THEMES; AND SUSPENSEFUL MYSTERY.. ISBN: 0345457374. Good/No Jacket. ( more information)
Offered by Rogelio C., Books (United States)
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