A Gesture Life
A Novel
$40.91
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2000
Summary
The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.
His remarkable debut novel was called “rapturous” (The New York Times Book Review), “revelatory” (Vogue), and “wholly innovative” (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781573228282 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1573228281 |
| Author: | Chang-rae Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 135mm x 201mm |
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Critics Review
“A beautiful, solitary, remarkably tender book.“—The New York Times Book Review
”A Gesture Life is the touching, multilayered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable…A deeply involving tale, no less so because we realize, almost from the first chapter, that we can’t trust Hata’s version of events. [Lee] enlists the reader’s full energies to interpret this enigmatic speaker, who saddens, baffles and unfuriates us all at once.“—Chicago Tribune
“Once again, this gifted young author has given us a beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it.“—The Christian Science Monitor
“Lee elegantly creates suspense out of the seemingly static story of a man trying hard not to feel. He has written a wise and humane novel that both amplifies the themes of identity and exile he addressed in Native Speaker, and creates a wonderfully resonant portrait of a man caught between two cultures and two lives.“—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New York Times as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.
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