Interior Chinatown: A Novel
by Charles Yu
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0307948471
- ISBN 13
- 9780307948472
- Seller
-
Rock Island, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First Trade Paperback. First Printing. Vintage Contemporaries/Penguin/ Random House (2020). Fine, as new, unread trade paperback. A sharp copy. Swift shipping. 3-b
Synopsis
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy — the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that is what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: be more. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes — Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet (from the publisher).
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Widdershin's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 924
- Title
- Interior Chinatown: A Novel
- Author
- Charles Yu
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Paperback Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307948471
- ISBN 13
- 9780307948472
- Publisher
- Penguin/ Random House
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novels; Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Widdershin's Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged in transit.
About the Seller
Widdershin's Books
About Widdershin's Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...