American Knees

by Shawn Wong, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge (Introduction)

Overview

Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295745282
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Shawn Wong is the author of the award-winning novel Homebase and an editor of several anthologies of Asian American literature, including Aiiieeeee! and The Big Aiiieeeee! He is the director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington.Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Jeffrey F. L. Partridge

1. Loyalty, Betrayal, & Revenge

2. Gold Spike

3. Eye Contact

4. Open Curtains

5. Sleepwalking

6. Fear of Flying

7. Moment Resistance

8. Chinese Girls

9. Pathology

10. Betty Loves Raymond

11. Medical History

12. Extravagance and Equilibrium

What People are Saying About This

Terry McMillan

"'American Knees' is so refreshing - what an enegetic and humorous view Shawn Wong has so bravely taken!...This should be required reading."

Jessica Hagedorn

"I cracked up reading Shawn Wong’s witty, tender, wise, and sexy new novel. His lovable but ambivalent protagonist collides memorably with a cast of female characters who are a welcome change from the shrinking violets and silent martyrs we’ve come to expect from ‘ethnic’ literature. American Knees is contemporary to the bone – a highly entertaining, deftly written, provocative and moving work of fiction."

Editorial Reviews

"Wong overturns the racial stereotypes perpetrated against Asians in this country, and he does so with humor to spare. . . . No one has more eloquently or joyfully asserted our belonging."

Los Angeles Times Book Review - David Wong Louie

"With American Knees, Wong constructs a fast-paced world of botched romances, sexual and racial stereotypes, and unfulfilled longing."

A. Magazine

"Shawn Wong adds a funny, sexy chapter to Asian American literature. . . . A multi-cultural comedy that relentlessly lampoons the incidents and incidentals of modern Asian American life."

San Francisco Bay Guardian - Julie Shiroishi

Asian-American studies professor Wong presents a romantic comedy about cross-cultural identities. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In this light-hearted novel, Raymond Deng finds true happiness with a half-Asian, half-American beauty.

Library Journal

"Wong overturns the racial stereotypes perpetrated against Asians in this country, and it does so with humor to spare....No one has more eloquently or truthfully asserted our belonging." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

David Ng

"American Knees (a takeoff on the old schoolyard song, 'Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees. . .') is the story of how Raymond Ding, a politically correct man with a politically incorrect sense of humor, falls into, and out of, love with newspaper photographer Aurora Crane. As Raymond and Aurora’s story unfolds, Wong crafts some wonderfully telling and funny scenes of social relations in multicultural America."

Seattle Weekly

American Knees (a takeoff on the old schoolyard song, 'Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees. . .') is the story of how Raymond Ding, a politically correct man with a politically incorrect sense of humor, falls into, and out of, love with newspaper photographer Aurora Crane. As Raymond and Aurora's story unfolds, Wong crafts some wonderfully telling and funny scenes of social relations in multicultural America.

-- "Seattle Weekly"

Shawn Wong adds a funny, sexy chapter to Asian American literature. . . . A multi-cultural comedy that relentlessly lampoons the incidents and incidentals of modern Asian American life.

--Julie Shiroishi "San Francisco Bay Guardian"

With American Knees, Wong constructs a fast-paced world of botched romances, sexual and racial stereotypes, and unfulfilled longing.

-- "A. Magazine"

Wong overturns the racial stereotypes perpetrated against Asians in this country, and he does so with humor to spare. . . . No one has more eloquently or joyfully asserted our belonging.

--David Wong Louie "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

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