A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
by Li, Yiyun
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0007196628
- ISBN 13
- 9780007196623
- Seller
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Synopsis
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and attended Peking University. She came to the United States in 1996 to study medicine and started writing two years later. After receiving a master’s degree in immunology from the University of Iowa, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA. Li is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Glimmer Train , and Prospect . She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002974
- Title
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
- Author
- Li, Yiyun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- British First
- ISBN 10
- 0007196628
- ISBN 13
- 9780007196623
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London, Eng.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- American Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- High-End Books;
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