All that work and still no boys / / Kathryn Ma
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| Autore: |
Ma Kathryn
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| Titolo: |
All that work and still no boys / / Kathryn Ma
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (162 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.6 |
| 813.6 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Short stories, American |
| American fiction | |
| Note generali: | Iowa short fiction award |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; All That Work and Still No Boys; Second Child; The Scottish Play; For Sale By Owner; Prank; What I Know Now; Dougie; The Long Way Home; Gratitude; Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Wu |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California's Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and hi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | All that work and still no boys |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-878-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812477503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Iowa short fiction award.