THE JOY LUCK CLUB.
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399134204
- ISBN 13
- 9780399134203
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: PUTNAM.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399134204 . First edition. Close to fine in fine dust jacket. (Previous owner's name & date contemporary with publication on front end-paper. Couple of faint spots of soiling at edges) Author's celebrated FIRST book. Made into a film. (BC) .
Synopsis
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21982
- Title
- THE JOY LUCK CLUB.
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399134204
- ISBN 13
- 9780399134203
- Publisher
- PUTNAM.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0399134204, Modern Fiction/asian-American Literature/amy Tan/books Into Films/225
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