Danger & Beauty

ISBN-13: 9780872863873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

Opis

Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Here in one volume are this exciting writer's first two books, Dangerous Music and Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions, along with a generous selection of her work that reveals a powerful and writty continuation of her journey as a singer and searcher, woman and questioner.-Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who in the process are creating a new American Literature.- --Russell Banks- Hagedorn] sees her native land from both near and far, with ambivalent love, the only kind of love worth writing about.- --John Updike-Ms. Hagedorn is deliciously wicked . . . - --Caryn James, New York TimesJessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, playwright, and formerly a commentator on NPR. Her novel, Dogeaters, won an American Book Award. Other books include the groundbreaking Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and The Gangster of Love.