Fake House: Stories Hardcover - 2000

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Author: Linh Dinh
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by Linh Dinh

In his first collection of short stories, Dinh explores the weird, atrocious, fond, ongoing intimacies between post-war Vietnam and the United States, introducing characters linked by a common past and driven by an intense and angry energy.

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A recipient of the Pew Foundation grant, the David T. Wong Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004), five books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007) and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009), and the novel Love Like Hate (Seven Stories Press 2010). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, and 2007, and in Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. Linh Dinh is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (2006). Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the Best Books of 2004. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.

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Title Fake House: Stories
Author Linh Dinh
Binding Hardcover
Edition First Edition
Pages 208
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date 2000-09-05
ISBN 9781583220399 / 1583220399
Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
Dimensions 8.54 x 5.86 x 0.77 in (21.69 x 14.88 x 1.96 cm)
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
Library of Congress subjects Vietnamese Americans, Vietnam - Social life and customs
Library of Congress Catalog Number 00030802
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Booklist, 09/15/2000, Page 215
Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1624
Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2000, Page 1072
Publishers Weekly, 09/25/2000, Page 86

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A recipient of a Pew Foundation grant, a David T. Wong Fellowship, a Lannan Residency and, most recently, the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH was born in Saigon in 1963 and emigrated to the United States in 1975. An acclaimed and provocative writer of short stories and contemporary fables, he is also the author of several books of poems and a novel, Love Like Hate. Linh has edited the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam and Three Vietnamese Poets. His collection of stories, Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the Best Books of 2004. Linh's nonfiction essays have been published regularly at Unz Review, LewRockwell, Intrepid Report and CounterCurrents, and his blog, Postcards from the End of America (linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com), is followed by thousands of readers. He has also published widely in Vietnamese.

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