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The Joy Luck Club

Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407072854
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‘The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that’s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum’ Stylist Discover Amy Tan’s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.

Language: en
Pages: 368

The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Amy Tan

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-26 - Publisher: Random House

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‘The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that’s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum’ Stylist Discover Amy Tan’s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.

Language: en
Pages: 233

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Authors: Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom

Categories: Chinese Americans in literature

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Infobase Publishing

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism. -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Language: en
Pages: 194

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Harold Bloom

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Infobase Publishing

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Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the author's novel about Chinese-American families.

Language: en
Pages: 61

Selected from the Joy Luck Club

Authors: Amy Tan

Categories: Juvenile Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher:

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Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughters' memories and feelings.

Language: en
Pages: 112

A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Pamela Loos

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.

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"An introduction to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club for high school students, which includes relevant biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.

Language: en
Pages:

The Joy Luck Club (Study Guide)

Authors: BookCaps Study Guides Staff

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides

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The perfect companion to Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Language: en
Pages: 191

Women's Issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Gary Wiener

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

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Presents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club," discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.

Language: en
Pages:

The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Amy Tan

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-01 - Publisher: Perfection Learning

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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.

Language: en
Pages: 15

A Study Guide for Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Authors: Gale, Cengage Learning

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-15 - Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

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A Study Guide for Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Language: en
Pages: 336

The Joy Luck Club. Text mit Materialien.

Authors: Amy Tan

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Ernst Klett Sprachen

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