HEADS BY HARRY. By Lois-Ann Yamanaka.
1999 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 216mm). Ppvi,314. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt.
"Enamoured of Billy Harper, a hapa haole [European American] who loves her from afar, Toni must choose between college life, the strange beauty of taxidermy, the gore of the hunt, and her visceral attraction to Maverick's older brother, Wyatt, a swaggering thug who may be far more tender than he appears. Graphic, compassionate, and brutally funny". . . One of a controversial (in America) trilogy describing growing up in Hawaii in a working-class Japanese-American community. Set in a Hawaiian taxidermy shop and with passages on pig-hunting.
"Enamoured of Billy Harper, a hapa haole [European American] who loves her from afar, Toni must choose between college life, the strange beauty of taxidermy, the gore of the hunt, and her visceral attraction to Maverick's older brother, Wyatt, a swaggering thug who may be far more tender than he appears. Graphic, compassionate, and brutally funny". . . One of a controversial (in America) trilogy describing growing up in Hawaii in a working-class Japanese-American community. Set in a Hawaiian taxidermy shop and with passages on pig-hunting.
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Book Code
21119
Author | Yamanaka (Lois-Ann). |
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Book Code | 21119 |
ISBN | 0374168504 / 0374168504. |
Book Description | Fine in dust-wrapper. |
Book Cover | Hardcover |
Published Date | 1999 |
Publisher | Farra, Straus and Giroux. |
Place | New York. |