HALF OF MAN IS WOMAN by Xianliang, Zhang - 1986

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.

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1988. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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.

W W Norton & Co Inc. Used - Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.