From the widely acclaimed author of China Boy comes a stunning new novel that continues to explore the pain and humor and drama of the Chinese-American experience--a powerful story in which a young man struggles to bring together his double heritage and its often conflicting concepts of honor and duty.
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From the widely acclaimed author of China Boy comes a stunning new novel that continues to explore the pain and humor and drama of the Chinese-American experience--a powerful story in which a young man struggles to bring together his double heritage and its often conflicting concepts of honor and duty.
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This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Book Royal octavo, hardcover, VG ex library with almost no markings in VG gold dj in mylar sleeve. Author's highly acclaimed second book. illustrated endpapers, 425 pp, 'Kai Ting is a cadet at West Point in the 1960's. He comes to the military academy from turbulent San Francisco. ' A small boy's adjustment to western culture.
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Very Good. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Knopf hardcover w/ DJ, 1994. Book is VG to VG+, w/ clean text, binding tight enough to suggest it may be unread; p.o. 's bookplate inside front cover, very light fading to top edges. DJ is VG to VG+, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips). Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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VG+/VG+ 0679412581. Signed By Author. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. DJ in very nice condition.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 425 pages; Signed by Author; RB Lit.
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New in New jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed New. Very little shelfwear. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. The dust jacket is in new mylar.
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Fine. 0679412581. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed review slip & publicity placard laid-in) SIGNED presentation issue, with a bound-in page signed by Gus Lee, with his distinctive chop seal. Fine in dj. Author's SECOND book.
Honor and Duty, by Gus Lee, Audio read by B D Wong
This is Mr. Lee's second book in his fictionalized autobiographical series, following China Boy, Kai Ting. In this story he has grown from the poor little skinny beaten-up-every-day kid to a filled- out muscular young man (via fiends at the YMCA) about to enter West Point, partly for his own reasons but mainly to please his father. He, like the vast majority of Asian people at that time in history, had been taught to reverence and obey his elders, simply because they were his elders. The book is fast moving and interesting all the way through, especially when he meets Pearl Yee, a young NY Chinese girl seriously looking for a husband to keep herself from having to marry a man of her father's choosing. Kai Ting flunked a class and was out of West Point, reassigned and finally settled the issues between hmself and his late mother, who had been replaced by a harsh stepmother, and his father, who confessed that he also had flunked out of college back in Shanghai and in Honor and Duty, at least, they became friends at last.
I would love to share this wonderful book, so pleasantly read by B D Wong, with my grandchildren, but unfortunately it is so laced with four letter trash words and expletives, I will not allow them the opportunity to hear it.
