Amy Tan

by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Book Overview

In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan's work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786420138
• ISBN13: 9780786420131
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher