Language English Name American Knees Genres Novel Pages 240 pp | ISBN 978-0-295-98496-4 Originally published 2005 Country United States of America OCLC 57342291 | |
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Publication date 2005Originally released 1995 Media type Print (Hardback and Paperback) Similar Homebase, Aiiieeeee! An Antholog, America Is in the Heart, No‑No Boy, Before Columbus Foundati | ||
Shawn wong home base and american knees with robin stienberg national critics choice
American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and currently published by the University of Washington Press (2005). Conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club, Wong's book depicts the love life of an Asian American man with three complex women.
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- Shawn wong home base and american knees with robin stienberg national critics choice
- About the author
- Movie version
- References
The book chronicles with humor the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese American university administrator who first marries and divorces the perfect Chinese American wife, dates and breaks up with a hapa (bi-racial) younger woman, and gets involved with a Vietnamese American co-worker haunted by memories of the war.
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! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers and The Big Aiiieeeee!. He is an English Professor and the former director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington.
Movie version
A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen. The film was acquired by IFC Films.