I Love a Broad Margin to My Life - 9780307270191
Un libro in lingua di Kingston Maxine Hong edito da Random House Inc, 2011
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In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
In swift verse lines that become, in her hands, another way of writing memoir, Kingston embraces Thoreau’s notion of a “broad margin,” hoping to expand her vista: “I’m standing on top of a hill / I can see everywhichway— / the long way that I came, and the few places / I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day.” As she flies between her activities as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston also revisits her characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China. Ultimately, traveling without allies, she arrives at places where “Doors / between heaven and earth open wide.”
Such is the spirit of this wonderful book—doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kingston Maxine Hong
- Editore: Random House Inc
- Collana: Random House Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Gennaio '11
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Authors, American 20th century Biography Chinese American authors Biography Chinese American women Biography
- Pagine: 229
- ISBN-10: 030727019X
- EAN-13: 9780307270191