Pangs of love & other writings /David Wong Louie ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen ; afterword by King-Kok Cheung.
Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018,
Pangs of love & other writings /David Wong Louie ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen ; afterword by King-Kok Cheung. Pangs of love and other writings - University of Washington paperback edition. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) - Classics of Asian American literature .
Includes bibliographical references.
Birthday -- Displacement -- Bottles of beaujolais -- Social science -- Pangs of love -- Love on the rocks -- The movers -- Man's hysteria: real and imaginedin the twentieth century -- Warming trends -- Disturbing the universe -- Inheritance -- Cold hearted -- Eat, memory.
"Pangs of Love, originally published in 1991, was the debut work of David Wong Louie, one of the most influential voices in contemporary Asian American literature. This collection of short stories centers around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, often feeling disconnected from both American society and their own families. Yet the stories transcend the simplistic narrative of Asian American struggles with alienation in a foreign land, and the depth of the characters highlights how their experiences of love and envy and loneliness and loss and duty are universal, informed by their heritage but not confined by it. This expanded edition includes an additional short story, a haunting autobiographical essay, an afterword by King-Kok Cheung, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
9780295745404
2018055897
Asian Americans--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS3562 / .P364 2019
Pangs of love & other writings /David Wong Louie ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen ; afterword by King-Kok Cheung. Pangs of love and other writings - University of Washington paperback edition. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) - Classics of Asian American literature .
Includes bibliographical references.
Birthday -- Displacement -- Bottles of beaujolais -- Social science -- Pangs of love -- Love on the rocks -- The movers -- Man's hysteria: real and imaginedin the twentieth century -- Warming trends -- Disturbing the universe -- Inheritance -- Cold hearted -- Eat, memory.
"Pangs of Love, originally published in 1991, was the debut work of David Wong Louie, one of the most influential voices in contemporary Asian American literature. This collection of short stories centers around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, often feeling disconnected from both American society and their own families. Yet the stories transcend the simplistic narrative of Asian American struggles with alienation in a foreign land, and the depth of the characters highlights how their experiences of love and envy and loneliness and loss and duty are universal, informed by their heritage but not confined by it. This expanded edition includes an additional short story, a haunting autobiographical essay, an afterword by King-Kok Cheung, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
9780295745404
2018055897
Asian Americans--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS3562 / .P364 2019