New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a brief inscription to another novelist; the date is April 5, 1989. Clean, bright pages except for a brush of foxing along the head edges; the hard cover shows a small spot of wear at the spine heel, and the corner tips are very lightly worn; the unclipped dust jacket has a thin curl at the spine head and light edge folding around spine head and top free corners; otherwise excellent.; Signed by Author.

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Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963. They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai‘i, where Kingston took various teaching posts. They returned to California seventeen years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley. While in Hawai‘i, Kingston wrote her first two books. The Woman Warrior , her first book, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China Men , earned the National Book Award. Still today, both books are widely taught in literature and other classes. Kingston has earned additional awards, including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey , the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton, as well as the title “Living Treasure of Hawai‘i” bestowed by a Honolulu Buddhist church. Her most recent books include a collection of essays, Hawai ‘ i One Summer , and latest novel, The Fifth Book of Peace . Kingston is currently Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bookseller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 80451
Title: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Stated First Edition
ISBN 10: 0394568311
ISBN 13: 9780394568317
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1989
Bookseller catalogs: Signed by Author;

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