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The Confessions of a Number One Son: The Great Chinese American Novel Hardcover - 2015
by Frank Chin; Calvin McMillin (Editor)
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- Title The Confessions of a Number One Son: The Great Chinese American Novel
- Author Frank Chin; Calvin McMillin (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Hawaii Press
- Date 2015
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780824847555 / 0824847555
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.), Chinese Americans - California - San
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014019788
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Hardback. New. In the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a fulllength novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature,would discover Chin's original manuscripts and embark on an extensive restoration project. Meticulously reassembled from multiple extant drafts, Frank Chin's "forgotten" novel is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the further misadventures of Tam Lum, the original play's witty protagonist. Haunted by the bitter memories of a failed marriage and the untimely death of a beloved family member, Tam flees San Francisco's Chinatown for a life of self-imposed exile on the Hawaiian island of Maui. After burning his sole copy of a manuscript he believed would someday be hailed as "The Great Chinese American Novel," Tam…
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