Isbn: 9780143134022 - the hanging on union square: an american epic (8 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice, featuring an introduction by New Yorker writer Hua Hsu, author of thePulitzer Prizewinning memoir Stay TrueA Penguin ClassicIt's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight. Over the course of a single night, in a narrative that unfolds hour by hour, he meets a cast of strange charactersdisgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women, pesky authorswho eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations for upward mobility and become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive, and suffused with revolutionary fervor, and culminating in a dramatic face-off against capitalist power in the figure of the greedy businessman Mr. System, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality. More than eighty years after it was self-published, having been rejected by dozens of baffled publishers, it has become a classic of Asian American literaturea satirical send-up of class politics and capitalism and a shout of populist rage that still resonates today.Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics: America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305) The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022). …

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Zustand: New. H. T. Tsiang (1899-1971) was born in China and emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-seven. He studied at Stanford and Columbia, and while living in New York he wrote poetry and op-eds, acted in local theater productions, and washed dis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Hanging on Union Square | H. T. Tsiang | Taschenbuch | Penguin Publishing Group | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2019 | Random House | EAN 9780143134022 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…