The Hundred Secret Senses
by TAN, Amy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Fine
- Seller
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Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam. (1995). The third novel by the author of The Joy Luck Club. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with the publisher's "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front panel. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
Synopsis
"The wisest and most captivating novel tan has written." - The Boston Globe Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 915614
- Title
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- Author
- TAN, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1995)
Terms of Sale
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
About the Seller
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Hadley, Massachusetts
About Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issue catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the Vietnam War and the 1960s, and Nature Writing. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. We maintain an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. We are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of our areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to us.
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