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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002254867
- ISBN 13
- 9780002254861
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Harper Collins, London, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 308 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are very lightly tanned throughout. Dust Jacket is not price clipped and in excellent condition. Edges browned slightly. There is some rubbing to top and bottom of boards. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ?The Joy Luck Club?, ?The Kitchen God?s Wife? and ?The Hundred Secret Senses?. Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, ?The Bonesetter?s Daughter? is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0002254867. ISBN/EAN: 9780002254861. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5086. . 9780002254861
Synopsis
Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club , The Kitchen God’s Wife , The Hundred Secret Senses , and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat , which has been adapted as Sagwa , a PBS series for children. Tan was also the 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. Tan, who has a master’s degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5086
- Title
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002254867
- ISBN 13
- 9780002254861
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Chinese -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction, Women -- China -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction, Fiction; ISBN: 0002254867 EAN: 9780002254861 Tan, Amy The Boneset
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