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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Nevius, Blake

Paperback

Series: Columbia Essays on Modern Writers

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231029888
ISBN13: 9780231029889
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jul 22 1970
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius. In The Two Sign Painters, TV reporters ambush two young workers from the country taking a break atop a twenty-four-story building. His Son's Big Doll introduces the tortured soul inside a walking advertisement, and in Xiaoqi's Cap a dissatisfied pressure-cooker salesman is fascinated by a young schoolgirl.Huang's characters -- generally the uneducated and disadvantaged who must cope with assaults on their traditionalism, hostility from their urban brethren and, of course, the debilitating effects of poverty -- come to life in all their human uniqueness, free from idealization.

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