Don Lee

The Collective: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Riveting, moving, andmost impressiveagile and resourceful in its approach to race. Don Lee explores that issue from every conceivable angle, raising a thousand questions and undercutting easy answers." Jennifer Egan

Joshua Yoon, Eric Cho, and Jessica Tsai arrive at Macalester College with different baggage but a singular and overpowering ambitionto become artists. As the years progress, their resolve is tested first by an act of campus racism and later, while they're living together as adults in Cambridge, by a set of real-world demands and distractions that ultimately drive them in vastly different directions. A dazzling exploration of racial identity and the queasy position of the artist in contemporary America, Don Lee's latest is a landmark achievementhis most funny, tragic, and revealing book yet.

Winner of the 2013 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393083958
• Artikelnr.: 59591407

Autorenporträt

Don Lee is the author of the novels The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University and splits his time between Philadelphia and Baltimore.