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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0679727892
ISBN13: 9780679727897
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 10 1990
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years - From the acclaimed author of The Woman Warrior and China Men comes a novel centered on the life of a Chinese-American hippie and aspiring playwright as he explores the complexities of identity, culture, and artistic ambition.

A dazzling leap of imaginative sympathy [and] narrative magic.--The New York Times Book Review

Wittman Ah Sing is a young Chinese-American hippie in San Francisco during the late sixties. Named after America's quintessential poet, indomitably garrulous and free-spirited, Wittman is as American as James Dean. Yet he also bears a strking resemblance to Monkey, the trickster-saint of Chinese legend who helped bring the Buddhist scriptures from India.

Driven by his dream of writing and staging an epic production of interwoven Chinese novels and folktales, Wittman embarks on an extraordinary journey through an era as fantastic as his ambition. Tripmaster Monkey is by turns surreal; exuberantly charged with spectacle, violence, and Chinese talk-story; and wildly, bitterly funny. Kingston's masterful storytelling brings to life the struggles and triumphs of a young man caught between two worlds on a quest for self-discovery and cultural reconciliation.

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