Stamp: $3.68
| Condition: |
Simply: A book that has been read nonetheless is in appropriate situation. Very minimal smash to the quilt including scuff |
Newsletter Yr: | 1999 |
| Layout: | Paperback | Language: | English |
| ISBN: |
9780679781585 |
EAN: |
9780679781585 |
| Synopsis | |
| “Charming, minutely imagined . . . a weird that refuses to raise shut” (“Newsweek”), “Memoirs of a Geisha” is now released in a movie tie-in edition. A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this vivid debut unusual tells with seamless authenticity and ravishing lyricism the superior confessions of 1 in all Japan’s most effectively-known geisha. Talking to us with the wisdom of age and in a impart staunch now haunting and startlingly instantaneous, Nitta Sayuri tells the parable of her life as a geisha. It begins in a wretched fishing village in 1929, when, as a 9-year-ancient lady with extraordinary blue-grey eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a infamous geisha condominium. We look her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and tune; carrying kimono, justify makeup, and hair; pouring sake to repeat upright a slightly of internal wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men’s solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha , we enter a worldwide the keep appearances are paramount; the keep a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; the keep girls persons are trained to beguile the strongest men; and the keep fancy is scorned as phantasm. It’s a queer and triumphant work of fiction staunch now romantic, erotic, suspenseful and fully unforgettable.” | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0679781587 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780679781585 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 719495 |
| Key Little print | |
| Author | Arthur Golden |
| Amount Of Pages | 448 pages |
| Sequence | Traditional Contemporaries |
| Layout | Paperback |
| Newsletter Date | 1999-01-10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Crew |
| Newsletter Yr | 1999 |
| Further Little print | |
| Copyright Date | 1997 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 11.4 Oz.19459027] |
| Top | 0.9 In. |
| Width | 5.2 In. |
| Dimension | 8 In. |
| Purpose Target audience | |
| Crew | Alternate |
| Classification Come | |
| LCCN | 98-026449 |
| LC Classification Amount | PS3557.O35926M45 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813.54 |
| Dewey Edition | 22 |
| Opinions | |
| “Amazing . . . breathtaking . . . You have to maybe well even be seduced fully.” Washington Submit E book World “Charming, minutely imagined . . . a weird that refuses to raise shut.” Newsweek “A myth with the social vibrancy and story sweep of a worthy-preferred 19th century bildungsroman. . . . Right here’s a high-wire act. . . . In most cases ever has a worldwide so closed and international been evoked with such pure assurance.” The Recent Yorker | |
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