Wong, Shawn

American Knees

Hardcover, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on the full title page in the year of publication. Inscription reads: "To Rolland, make eye contact! Best, Shawn Wong Oct. 19, 1995 Brentwood". "...divorce is a number one failing for a number one son - who hasn't even gotten around to starting a family after seven years of marriage...But extricating himself from wedlock is only the beginning of Raymond's problems. When he meets beautiful half-Japanese Aurora Crane, he learns that it's impossible to negotiate the shoals of modern romance without banging his shins on questions of race, culture, and identity he thought he'd left behind in the schoolyard...Equally uncomfortable with the expectations that family and society, Asian and non-Asian alike, have heaped upon them, he and Aurora try desperately...to fall out of love...until they embrace the inevitable: that they are, as they appear, made for each other..." - from the dust jacket. Ships same or next business day. Top back corner and head and tail of spine are gently bumped. Dust jacket protected in an archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Signed by Author. [Item #52114]

Price: $22.00