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Native Speaker
Contributor(s): Lee, Chang-Rae (Author), Hische, Jessica (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0143124307     ISBN-13: 9780143124306
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE:   $24.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Asian American
- Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013001804
Series: Penguin Drop Caps
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 7.8" (0.95 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Korean
- Geographic Orientation - New York
 
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Publisher Description:
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series launches with six perennial favorites to give as elegant gifts, or to showcase on your own shelves.

L is for Lee. Korean American Henry Park is "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, Yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. And now, a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both and belongs to neither. Chang-Rae Lee's first novel Native Speaker is a raw and lyrical evocation of the immigrant experience and of the question of identity itself.