books by Maxine Hong Kingston     books:     Maxine Hong Kingston      Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Koa Books, 2006 A must read! I've often wished for what "Veterans of War Veterans of Peace" offers, honest and eloquent testimonies of war's myriad sorrows and transformations, to guide my own healing as a daughter of the war in Viet Nam. I am stunned by these eighty brave and beautifully-written ...             Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage Books USA, 1989 It Helped Me Understand My Own Heritage I have a different perspective from many readers who view this book primarily as a work of Women's Literature. As a half-asian male with a emigree mother, I read this book many years ago, in those formless, questioning years of the late 'teens. Even though I could ...             For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Mindfulness Trainings Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, ... Parallax Press, 1998 Excellent guide to implement precepts into daily life Thich Nhat Hanh has updated the traditional Buddhist precepts in this book. His version goes beyond "do not kill," for example, to be mindful of that we might be killing inadvertently. He makes us aware of the broadness of the precepts and thus encourages us to be ...             The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 1989 Prepare for the unexpected. This is a tremendous novel. The author threads the stories her mother told her when she was a child, through the retelling of her own life, using them to draw you into her own imagination. As she grows up, living half immersed in traditional myth and half in gritty ...             The Fifth Book of Peace Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 2004 Compelling meditation on Earth, Paper, Fire, and Water Most of us who live in the Oakland/Berkeley area are familiar with the fact that Maxine Hong Kingston's home, containing her only copy of a nearly finished book, burned to the ground in the Oakland Hills Fire of 1991. She was returning from her father's funeral when ...             Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 1990 Memoir of a Playwright Among Ghosts? It is hard to believe that "Tripmaster Monkey: His ... Book" is by the same author who wrote "The Woman Warrior." Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" is her first "novel" (though by no means her first foray into fiction), and it is easy to see why there was a ...             The Woman Warrior, China Men (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) Maxine Hong Kingston Everyman's Library, 2005 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Here?for the first time in one volume?are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family?s past and her culture?s stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power. The Woman Warrior: ...             To Be the Poet (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization) Maxine Hong Kingston Harvard University Press, 2002 Charming, if somewhat puzzling, little book In this book, Maxine Hong Kingston proclaims to want to live the life of the poet. Working on her "longbook"--her thousand-plus page novel about Vietnam war veterans (her first novel since 1989's "Tripmaster Monkey")--has consumed so much of her life, creatively and ...             China Men Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 1989 An Experience To Remember........... The China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston was a very interesting book. It contains stories of Chinese men traveling to America in the 1800's and working on the transcontinental railroads, in Sierra Nevada. The author shares a lot of details in the stories about her family ...             F.O.B. and Other Plays David Henry Hwang Plume, 1990 A very good collection of Hwang's early work David Henry Hwang is best-known for his play, "M Butterfly," and this is a shame. Although "Butterfly" is indeed a wonderful play, Hwang is one of the more versatile playwrights today, and this book shows the breadth of it. Most of his plays (FOB, Dance and the ...             The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston Vintage, 1989             Hawai'i One Summer (Latitude 20 Book) Maxine Hong Kingston University of Hawaii Press, 1998 Absolutely Wonderful HAWAI'I ONE SUMMER is probably Kingston's least-read work, but I think it's the piece which captures this writer's clear and graceful prose style the best. Her essays range from surfing to dishwashing. Who'd ever guess that someone could write a substantial essay on ...             The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945 University of California Press, 2000 California, End of the earth I'm taking a class from one of the guys who compiled the book, and for starters let me say twenty bucks is a damn good deal for a textbook. This one is meaty too. Very interesting prefaces for each selection of writing, as well as essays about each period. A must ...          products you might be interested in search for books beginnings, civilization, commentaries, contemporary, mindfulness, tripmaster      geepe.com    web we recommend Prepare for the unexpected. randomly chosen book: Hardwood Floors: Laying, Sanding and Finishing