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The Joy Luck Club »

Authors: Amy Tan
ISBN-13: 9780143038092, ISBN-10: 0143038095
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Amy Tan

With her acclaimed 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club and its successors, Amy Tan succeeded in revealing the Chinese-American sensibility to readers in unprecedented numbers. In mystical, winding prose, she draws the boundaries and commonalities between generations of women who are related, but born worlds apart.

Book Synopsis

In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40 years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. Unabridged. 8 CDs.

Publishers Weekly

``Intensely poetic, startlingly imaginative and moving, this remarkable book will speak to many women, mothers and grown daughters, about the persistent tensions and powerful bonds between generations and cultures,'' praised PW . Author tour. (June)

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	The Joy Luck Club	19
	Scar	42
	The Red Candle	49
	The Moon Lady	67
	The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
	Rules of the Game	89
	The Voice from the Wall	102
	Half and Half	116
	Two Kinds	132
	American Translation
	Rice Husband	149
	Four Directions	166
	Without Wood	185
	Best Quality	197
	Queen Mother of the Western Skies
	Magpies	215
	Waiting Between the Trees	242
	Double Face	253
	A Pair of Tickets	267