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The Joy Luck Club
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The Joy Luck Club

Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: New York : Putnam's, ©1989.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amy Tan
ISBN: 0399134204 : 9780399134203 0804106304 9780804106306
OCLC Number: 18464018
Description: 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.
Responsibility: Amy Tan.

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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.

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