| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780393323085 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30910536 | | Item#: RDV6Y2 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 352 |
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| | | "Yellow" is set in the fictional California coastal town of Rosarita Bay, whose inhabitants face not only fears of being ethnically "yellow" but also the universal terrors of love, failure, and abandonment.
Annotation:
The seven stories and novella collected here take place in California and revolve around Asian-American characters who identify themselves by the work they do. Poets, a carpenter, an engineer, a boat captain, and others populate the collection, which deals with the relationships forged by each.
| PraiseWashington Post Book World
"[An] accomplished first story collection....The collection's spiritual territory is the notion of family: how the bonds between people are formed, altered and broken. Lee alternates between humor and pathos in delineating his characters' endeavors to find people who will give their lives meaning, and then to hold them close." 04/08/2001New York Times Book Review
"Sometimes, the connection between the stories can seem forced, and a few characters seemed spawned from a thesis rather than the other way around. But more often than not, Lee...proves himself a worthy practitioner of realistic fiction in the vein of writers like Richard Yates and Andre Dubus. His narratives zip along, encapsulating whole lifetimes of intelligent men and women whose self-awareness is insufficient for the gantlets they must run." - Will Blythe 07/15/2001 |
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