THE OPPOSITE OF FATE: A Book of Musings
by Tan, Amy
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0399150749
- ISBN 13
- 9780399150746
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Synopsis
Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world?s best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, The Opposite of Fate offers vivid portraits of choices, attitudes, charms, and luck in action?a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8265
- Title
- THE OPPOSITE OF FATE: A Book of Musings
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399150749
- ISBN 13
- 9780399150746
- Publisher
- Putnam Publishing Group, The
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- TAN AMY 1952 CHINESE AMERICANS FICTION AUTHORSHIP AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY FREE WILL DETERMINISM FATE FATALISM AUTOBIOGRAPHY LITERARY LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES CRITICISM AMERICAN ASIAN PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHNOLOGY General, General, General, General, Liter
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