Title | : | Hawai'i One Summer |
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Author | : | Maxine Hong Kingston |
Release | : | 2014-08-10 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Travel & Adventure, Travel Essays & Memoirs, History, U.S. History |
Size | : | 2331893 |
Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge. |