Come Watch the Sun Go Home

Verlag: Marlowe & Company (c.1998), New York, 1998

  • Erstausgabe
  • Hardcover
  • Gebraucht
Alle Details anzeigen
Verkäuferin bzw. Verkäufer von Kulturgütern

Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USAReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 24. Februar 1998

Verbandsmitglied: ABAAIOBAILAB

Artikel dieses Verkäufers ansehen
Hardcover

Zustand: Gebraucht - Sehr gut

EUR 13,47

 Versand gratis 
Versand innerhalb von USA

Anzahl: 1 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb
Kostenlose Rückgaben innerhalb von 30 Tagen

Artikelbeschreibung vom Verkäufer

[brand-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. In this "memoir of upheaval and revolution in China," the author writes movingly of her family's travails over the course of Chinese history from the 1930s to the 1990s. "Having fled persecution in Chunking during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945), the Chens settled briefly in Peking, then escaped to the U.S. during the intensifying civil war," living for a time in Berkeley, California. They were repatriated in the early 1950s to a very different China, following the Communist victory, and eventually endured great suffering under Mao's cultural revolution; the author herself served a prison sentence (along with her infant son) and then experienced the rigors of a "re-education" farm. She survived all that to eventually assume an important position in the China Film Association, which in turn led to several trips back to the U.S. for academic pursuits in the field; she was on one of these educational sojourns when the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred. She gave a TV interview to a local station in Wisconsin, which was subsequently picked up and broadcast worldwide on CNN -- making it too dangerous for her to return to China, even though her two (then-adult) children were still there. She eventually found safe haven in California -- "here again in the Golden State I had dreamed about in the dungeon, here where I yearned to find refuge from all horrors and persecution.".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29307

Bibliografische Details

Titel
Come Watch the Sun Go Home
Autor
Chen Chen (pseud.)
Verlag
Marlowe & Company (c.1998), New York
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1998
Zustand
Fine
Schutzumschlag
Fine dj
Einband
Hardcover
Illustrator
Illustrated by (dj design) Paul Gordon
Ausgabe
First Edition.
Verkäuferkataloge
Biography/Autobiography

ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

AbeBooks-Verkäufer/-in seit 24. Februar 1998

Verbandsmitglied:

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Artikel5 bis 14 Werktage3 bis 6 Werktage
Erster ArtikelEUR 0,00EUR 10,46
Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, können Verzögerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Gebühren sind von der Käuferin bzw. dem Käufer zu tragen. Die Verkäuferin bzw. der Verkäufer kann Sie bezüglich zusätzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen möglichen Anstieg der Versandkosten für Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.

Zahlungsarten

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Vorauskasse
  • Zahlungsanweisung

Shop-Beschreibung

Welcome to ReadInk (rhymes with "Dead Ink"), now in our 29th year of putting interesting books into the hands of interested people. **** Although I occasionally lapse into the "royal we" voice, ReadInk is just me, from one end of the pipeline to the other: buying, cataloging, customer service, shipping, you name it. Nothing here is automated, and every order or inquiry gets my prompt, personal attention. **** In describing a book's physical condition, I employ standard book-grading terminology (Good/Very Good/Fine, with various in-between gradations as appropriate) and do my best to avoid both excessive jargon and overly-finicky detail. My goal is always to present a faithful impression of a book's condition and appearance; significant flaws are individually noted, or if too numerous are succinctly summarized. **** Books are more than just physical objects, however: they are also intellectual/information vessels, and in almost every case I also include some information about a book's content in my listing, even if it's only a carefully chosen quotation from the dust jacket copy. (This may sound like a small thing, but take a look sometime and you'll see how amazingly few sellers bother with this, especially in the case of older fiction, which is one of my specialties.) **** I take great care (and pride) in my packaging of books for shipment; I figure it's my responsibility to ensure that each book I send out will withstand the rigors of the U.S. Postal System, and will reach its new owner in the same condition as advertised. (A sturdy box or an unbendable package is always involved.) **** That's all there is to ReadInk: just a guy who has loved books all my life (perhaps to excess) and entered the trade in my "middle years" to see what I could make of it. And I'm still finding out. **** To view my inventory exclusively, head over to my website -- www.readinkbooks.com. ---- Howard Prouty, prop.

Spezialisierung

Vintage American Fiction, Mystery/Detective Fiction, Film/TV/Theatre, Cinema Periodicals, and Most Anything Else That Strikes My Fancy

Verbandsmitglied

  • Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
  • Independent Online Booksellers Association
  • International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Die Mitglieder dieser Verbände haben sich verpflichtet, die höchsten Standards einzuhalten. Sie verbürgen sich für die Echtheit aller zum Verkauf angebotenen Artikel. Sie liefern fachkundige und detaillierte Beschreibungen, legen alle wesentlichen Mängel und/oder Restaurierungen offen, bieten klare und genaue Preisangaben und arbeiten während des Kaufprozesses fair und ehrlich.

Unternehmensdaten der Verkäuferin bzw. des Verkäufers

ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA

CA, USA