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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670832200
ISBN-139780670832200
eBay Product ID (ePID)1322474
Product Key Features
Book TitleEast Is East
TopicCultural Heritage, General, Literary
Publication Year1990
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorT.C. Boyle
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-040804
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisYoung Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations and mistaken identity, love, jealousy, and betrayal., A young Japanese seaman jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and washes ashore on a barrier island inhabited by a strange mix of rednecks, descendents of slaves, genteel retired people, and a colony of artists. The result is a sexy, savagely hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations, mistaken identity, love, jealousy and betrayal.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.O932E18 1990
