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Lord, Bette Bao In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Harper & Row 1984 0060240032 / 9780060240035 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine Simont, Marc
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Number line: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Illustrated by Marc Simon. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 169 pages. Synopsis: Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity. Children's Literature: Sixth Cousin moves from Chungking to New York to rejoin her father who had emigrated from China one year before. She renames herself Shirley Temple Wong to fit in better, but soon finds out that she still doesn't quite belong. Baseball becomes her ticket to integration; this was the year that Jackie Robinson proved that the U.S. was truly a land where everyone counted. Biography: Bette Bao Lord has based this story largely on the days when she herself was a newcomer to America. She is the author of Spring Moon, nominated for the American Book Award for First Novel, and Eighth Moon.
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Lord, Bette Bao Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1990 0394583256 / 9780394583259 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks - Price-clipped inside front-top dustcover flap. Stated First Edition. Appears unread. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 245 pages. - Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China in the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestselling novel Spring Moon, wife of a former American ambassador to China, resident in Beijing during the "China Spring" of 1989. Lord's unique web of relationships and her sensitive insight have enabled her to observe Chinese life both high and low, Communist and dissident, intellectual and ordinary. Lord interweaves her own story, and that of her clansmen, with the voices of men and women who recall the tumultuous experience of the last fifty years, and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution. In precise, subtle prose, Lord explores the reality of Red Guards and reeducation camps, of friends and families severed by political disgrace, and captures the individual voices of those caught up in them: the seven-year-old girl with a heart full of hate for her father; the journalist whose girlfriend believes the Party newspapers, not him; the imprisoned scholar who hid his writings in his quilt for years; the anti-revolutionary who tells his bitter story in a vein of high farce. All bear heartbreaking witness to the surreal quality of Chinese society today -- and to the astonishing resilience, humor, and heroic equanimity of the Chinese spirit.
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Lord, Bette Bao Spring Moon: A Novel of China
Avon Books 1982 0380599236 / 9780380599233 Mass Market Paperback Very Good +
Very-nice, clean copy. NO tears - Tight spine - Bright pages. 465 pages - ONLY writing/mark inside book is the number "10" notation in book front. NO remainder marks or price clippings. At a time of mystery and cruelty ... in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise ... a courageous woman triumphs over her world's ultimate tragedy. Behind the garden walls of the House of Chang, pampered daughter Spring Moon is born into luxury and privilege. But the tempests of change sweep her into a new world — one of hardship, turmoil, and heartbreak, one that threatens to destroy her husband, her family, and her darkest secret love. Through a tumultuous lifetime, Spring Moon must cling to her honor, to the memory of a time gone by, and to a destiny, foretold at her birth, that has yet to be fulfilled.
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Lord, Bette Bao The Middle Heart
Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1996 0394534328 / 9780394534329 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Stated First Edition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - From the acclaimed author of Spring Moon comes this dramatic, sweeping, richly emotional story of two men and a woman who are intricately bound to one another and to the cataclysmic events that have shaped modern China. Of different backgrounds and stations in life, they form a passionate alliance to defend their country and save their people. From the Publisher In 1932, when China is beset by domestic weakness and foreign assaults, three young people - whom we will know some years later as a political leader, a writer, and a great actress - form a passionate alliance. One of them is the brash young master of a once-great clan. The second is his bookmate, the lame servant chosen to shepherd his bright but unruly master through school. The third, whom they have just befriended, is a prank-playing urchin, a gravekeeper's daughter disguised as a boy. Instinctively and immediately, they pledge a solemn oath: "We three, though of different clans, bind ourselves to one end. We swear to defend our country and save our people. We cannot undo our separate births, but on the same day we mean to die." They vow to remain forever brothers of the "Middle Heart." But it is their destiny - over the years of World War II and the Communist revolution and upheavals - to be again and again separated and reunited, again and again challenged and tested by conflicting loyalties: to ideals, to country, to family; to the love of one's heart, to one's friends, to oneself.
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