Half of Man Is Woman [Aug 01, 1988] Zhang Xianliang and Avery, Martha by Zhang Xianliang; Avery, Martha - 1988-08-01

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988-08. Hardcover. Good.

W.W. Norton & Company, 1988. First English Translation. Hardback, Dustjacket. Very Good. Slight wear from storage..

W W Norton & Co Inc. Used - Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York. 1988. August 1988. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393025861. Translated from the Chinese by Martha Avery. 285 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lizzy Rockwell/Kenneth Alcorn. keywords: Literature China Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - As the Cultural Revolution rages, a gulag of labor camps in China's remote, harshly beautiful countryside teaches ‘capitalist roaders' and criminals alike ‘reform through labor.' There Zhang, a ‘rightist' poet, meets and (alls in love with Huang, a beautiful peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. In the jargon of the time, they are a ‘calamity couple,' and their relationship becomes the lens through which we see, and feel, the warping effects of the Cultural Revolution on ordinary people. Separated for years, the lovers reunite in another outpost of the gulag. But for the poet Zhang, years of imprisonment and forced labor have meant a loss of self: he is impotent, he cannot write. Words, like human… Read More

First Amerian Edition (stated) First printing (complete number line). Hardcover; very good condition in a very good and unclipped dust jacket.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988 As New, Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, Cover clean, Dust Jacket clean, unchipped, price clipped. No remainder marks, no shelf wear, No surprises. Same day Shipping.

Norton, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.