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E.Shaskan Bumas The Price of Tea in China (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Price of Tea in China
- Publication Name
- The Price of Tea in China
- Title
- The Price of Tea in China
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780870239304
- ISBN
- 9780870239304
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 30/11/1994
- Release Year
- 1994
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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With the practiced eye of a traveler at large, E. Shaskan Bumas portrays characters struggling to define their relationships to each other and to their time. Whether scientists or artisans, punks or new-agers, single mothers or students, activists or children in harm's way, Bumas's characters fill these stories with heart and subversive humor. The Price of Tea in China depicts places as far-flung as a Manhattan ghetto and a provincial Chinese city through an exploration of human relationships that makes each location both foreign and familiar. In "Flag of Fire," an American teacher becomes caught up in the lives of students engaged in China's pro-democracy movement. "Your Cordially Requested Presence" reveals a man's humorous sufferings as he acts the part of fiance for a lesbian friend at her cousin's wedding. "The Attraction to Gravity" brings us a young man whose growing appreciation of his girlfriend's small daughter is threatened by her father's reappearance. In "Cupid's Carriers," a student chronicles college life in the era of punk rock through a journal that takes on a life of its own. In "Emerging," a neighborhood's web of its inhabitants is torn apart by a police riot, and in "Spare the Child," a man describes the unplanned pregnancy of his girlfriend with biting dislike.
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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-10
0870239309
ISBN-13
9780870239304
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1051957
Product Key Features
Book Title
Price of Tea in China
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.U4639p75 1995
Reviews
"These unusual stories are risky in their variety and generosity. They happen in cities, college dorms, and China in the middle of Tiananmen Square. . . . I loved reading these stories."--Grace Paley "Originality comes in so many colors. There is the originality which apes its original so slavishly it hopes to be taken for its model, and there is the originally whose tired and old hat has been freshly blacked, briskly brushed, and wildly feathered. But these stories by Bumas are the real rich original itself, and widen the mind at they delight the imagination."--William H. Gass, Washington University, St. Louis "The human portraits are so revealing to me that I have to remind myself that the stories are made, that they are artistic renditions of a virtual reality."--Carolivia Herron, author of Thereafter Johnnie "The stories in this smashing debut are so wonderfully varied in style, tone, and content that it is hoped Bumas never settles into a particular groove or literary niche. . . . These are insightful, acidic, jolting, often hilarious works of fiction."--Booklist "In this haunting debut, Bumas explores the defining of relationships ad how the quality of human intimacy reveals much about the places we call home. All eight stories in this collection lend an ethereal element to situations that a first glance seem familiar, depicting men and women attracted and confused by friends and lovers and who find themselves equally lost in their given time and place. . . . Bumas woos with strong characters, wry tones, political complexity, and a unique voice."--Kirkus Reviews
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
94-018665
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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