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| | Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Amy Tan |
 | | Amy Tan is an extraordinary writer who skillfully reproduces the powerful and at times eruptive relationships between mothers, daughters, and siblings in her works of literature. | | | Find out what the pressure was like for Amy when she sat down to write her second book, if that kind of pressure ever really goes away, who her saving grace is when writing gets extra tough, and what she is working on now. | | | Join them as they discuss the challenges of writing such a profoundly personal story, Tan's relationship with her mother, what books are on the author's nightstand, and much more. |
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http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-tan-amy.asp
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| | BookPage Interview November 2003: Amy Tan |
| | Amy Tan had fervidly hoped to publish her fifth novel this fall, but fate would not allow it. | | | Tan doesn't blame her illness on fate, despite her mother's daily warnings of a curse on the family, but she does allow that such a curse did exist "because my mother strongly believed in it and she passed it on to my brother and me." | | | She proposed a collection based upon her lifelong search for a philosophical middle ground between faith and fate, to be called The Opposite of Fate. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0311bp/amy_tan.html
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| | DesiJournal.com - The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan |
| | In the note to the reader at the beginning of the book, Amy Tan notes that this book is not so much a memoir as a collection of non-fiction pieces that she has written over the years. | | | The book begins with Tan’s hilarious take on becoming a "contemporary author" (i.e., not dead) and reading the Cliffs Notes version of her life as she prepares for a book reading. | | | The chapters where Amy discusses her uneasiness with her success and the attention that gets are the funniest. |
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http://www.desijournal.com/book.asp?articleid=109
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| | VG: Artist Biography: Tan, Amy |
| | Tan's popularity helped expose an entire genre of literature to a broad cross section of society. | | | Tan's writing relies heavily on flashbacks, storytelling, and mysticism. | | | At this time, she also learned that her mother had been married to a different man in China and had three daughters from this marriage, a situation not unlike June's in The Joy Luck Club, her first novel. |
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http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html
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| | MetroActive Sonoma Independent Amy Tan |
| | Tan has said in print that The Joy Luck Club was written for her mother. | | | Tan says that for her, The Hundred Secret Senses answers "a question about love, unconditional love. | | | This writer of such popular fiction as The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife now has her name emblazoned in type larger than the title across the cover of her latest work. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/12.14.95/tan-9550.html
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| | Alibris: Amy Tan |
| | Internationally bestselling novelist Amy Tan's first work of nonfiction reveals personal stories of her life and family, and of faith and fate. | | | Mary Higgins Clark, Amy Tan, Joyce Carol Oates and Maya Angelou are among the gifted writers who share their personal reflections on mother in this exceptiolnal collection of fiction, essays and poetry. | | | This new picture book that tells the story of how Siamese cats got their characteristic coloring brings a faraway culture to vivid life, and is certain to win the hearts of all cat lovers. |
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| | The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan - read review |
| | Amy Tan's style is to tell the stories with humor, color, and enough perspective that when the story is over, you feel like you know these women... | | | It's commendable that Tan has decided to record and document the experiences of her family in The Bonesetter's Daughter, but her tale is too fictionalized to be authentic, too real to be interesting. | | | I remember thinking that it must be one of those "women's books" and didn't give it the time of day. |
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| | Telegraph Arts A life stranger than fiction |
| | In her new book, The Opposite of Fate, Tan describes what happened after a ferocious argument with her over Tan's new boyfriend. | | | In her new book, Tan recounts that one day her mother, in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, telephoned her. | | | Her mother asked Tan to write her story, a task she undertook - in a veiled fashion - in The Kitchen God's Wife. |
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http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/11/boamy10.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/11/11/ixartright.html
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| | Metroactive Books Amy Tan |
| | Tan has always had her manuscripts read by Giles, a former North Bay resident. | | | On a quest to uncover the truth about her mother's haunted past, Ruth works to translate LuLing's own written account of her life's story, a memoir that takes a compelling plunge into the tumultuous events of midcentury China. | | | And it's a subject that provokes a vivid and specific response from the author. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/04.05.01/tan-0114.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Amy Tan (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural differences among them, concentrating on women's experiences. | | | Tan's novels include The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), and The Hundred Secret Senses (1995). | | | She has also written essays and a children's book, The Moon Lady (1992). |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | The Hundred Secret Senses may be Tan's wisest, most captivating novel, an exalting, exultant tale of China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and our true selves. | | | Gretchen Schield's detailed, colorful paintings bring Amy Tan's charming story to wonderful life, making The Chinese Siamese Cat a book to be treasured for generations to come. | | | Amy Tan talks about The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Amy Tan |
| | The supernatural is also a theme in Tan’s fourth novel, The Bonesetter& (2001), in that “words flow” (308) between three generations of women: a muted “no-name” woman, Precious Auntie, communicates to her daughter and her granddaughter via “hand-talk, face-talk, chalk-talk” and “sand-writing” (4, 67), even after she commits suicide. | | | Moving away from mothers and daughters, and from twentieth-century historical events, The Hundred Secret Senses is about a cross-cultural relationship between two half sisters, one of whom “has yin eyes” (3) and, because of her supernatural experiences, tells a story about the Taiping Rebellion of the 1850s and 60s. | | | The prospect of losing her mother forced Amy to reassess their relationship: “I have lost her and I don’t even know what I am losing. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Joy Luck Club: Books: Amy Tan |
| | This accessible, well-written first novel is not Amy Tan's most accomplished (see The Kitchen God's Wife and The Bonesetter's Daughter), but it is her most widely read. | | | Amy Tan's novel of many voices has become required reading in high school and college contemporary literature courses - and for good reason. | | | Buy this book with Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan today! |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | Daisy Tan early life with her abusive ex-husband inspired Amy Tan second book, The Kitchen God Wife. | | | Besides from short stories, essays, and novels, Amy Tan had also written two children books?he Moon Lady published in 1992 and The Chinese Siamese Cat published in 1994. | | | This book and her third book, The Hundred Secret Senses, both appeared on The New York Times bestseller list. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/students/s/u/sul140/asn3.htm
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| | Featured Author: Amy Tan |
| | [But Amy Tan] has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialogue, a deep empathy for her subject matter and a guilelessly straightforward way of writing. | | | In an interview, Tan talked about the success of "The Joy Luck Club" and how it affected the writing of her second novel, "The Kitchen God's Wife." "I didn't want to be pegged as the mother-daughter expert," she said, but "I realized that rebellion was not a good reason to write what I was writing." | | | "Within the peculiar construction of Amy Tan's second novel is a harrowing, compelling and at times bitterly humorous tale. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/specials/tan.html
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| | Amy Tan |
| | The frenetic early life of her mother, Daisy, inspired Tan's novel, The Kitchen God's Wife. | | | Daisy provided her daughter with enough conflict, dialogue, and characters for a lifetime of writing. | | | The book has been translated into 17 languages, including Chinese. |
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| | "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records Artist Amy Tan |
| | Amy Tan and illustrator Gretchen Schields have published two books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. | | | Her first work of fiction, The Joy Luck Club, was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1989, and became the longest running bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list in 1989. | | | It appeared immediately on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for several months, and was short-listed for the Bay Area Book Reviewer's prize. |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | Interview: Author Amy Tan discusses her latest book, her mother, her supposedly cursed life and her participation in the Rock Bottom Remainders | | | Daisy Tan Dies at 83; Mother of Author Amy Tan, Inspiration for Novel | | | Interview: Amy Tan discusses a novel offer to name your own character |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | Such a heuristic can be applied to a text as a whole, to the characters or ideas that live in that text, or to the text's intended audience. | | | So heavily do Morrison, Oates, and Tan rely on the dialogic exchange among text, character and reader, that they would perhaps be unable to write without it. | | | TI: Three Women Revise: What Morrison, Oates, and Tan Can Teach Our Students about Revision. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/amytan.html
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| | Lesson 9: Amy Tan, Contemporary Novelist |
| | Past: Like Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, and other Southern writers, Amy Tan seems interested in the past and its impact on the present and future. | | | Since that initial success, Tan has published additional novels, as well as essays, short stories, and two children’s books. | | | Tan also explores mother-daughter relationships in her novel, which recounts not only Ruth’s interactions with her mother, but also her mother’s relationship with her own mother. |
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http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/markport/lit/amnovel/fall2002/10tan.htm
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| | Amy Tan |
| | Amy Tan is the author of four critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels. | | | Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award. |
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| | Amy Tan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | (Tan authored the screenplay.) She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. | | | Citing her mother as "her inspiration," Tan uses the clash of traditional Chinese customs with American customs as the main foundation for her work. | | | Tan's mother Daisy witnessed her mother committing suicide, and Amy believed that her grandmother, her mother and herself all suffered from depression. |
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| | Penguin Reading Guides The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan |
| | Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. | | | This luminous and gripping book demonstrates enhanced tenderness and wisdom, however; it carries the texture of real life and reflects the paradoxes historical events can produce." | | | Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which will be adapted as a PBS series for children. |
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| | Fiction: Amy Tan |
| | Tan's other books are The Kitchen God's Wife (1992); a children's book, The Moon Lady (1992); and The Hundred Secret Senses (1995). | | | This is a good place to begin your research on Amy Tan. | | | After her agent negotiated a $50,000 advance from Putnam, Tan worked full-time on the first draft of her book The Joy Luck Club (1989) and finished it in four months. |
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| | Amy Tan - Author Find |
| | AuthorFind.com is a reasource to find author information and all their published works. | | | Amy Tan Collection: Joy Luck Club and Kitchen God's Wife |
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| | Amy Tan: Overview |
| | The novel successfully combines numerous kinds of writing; Tan draws on the biography, the autobiography, the memoir, history, mythology, the folk tale, and the talk story. | | | Tan adopts the Chinese talk story in the mothers' warning stories to their daughters. | | | Over 2,000,000 copies were sold, Tan received $1.23 million for the paperback rights, and it has been translated into seventeen languages--including Chinese. |
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| | Lyme Disease in Canada, Amy Tan |
| | That Tan's answer hadn't been discovered through the CDC's diagnostic protocols doesn't surprise Edlow. | | | Nearly half a year before Tan's hallucinations began, she had returned home after a four-month, transoceanic book tour for her novel "The Bonesetter's Daughter." The persistent fatigue plaguing her before she started her itinerary had become life-consuming. | | | Tan reminded him that she and her husband split their time between the West Coast and New York, but the doctor was unmoved, she said. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Amy Tan |
| | The book also became the basis for a successful 1993 motion picture. | | | Tan’s acclaimed first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), explores the experiences of four Chinese immigrant women and their American daughters in a series of 16 stories. | | | United States (Culture); Tan, Amy; American Literature: Prose |
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| | The SALON Interview: Amy Tan |
| | Although it has flown up the best-seller lists in the month since its release, the book is a risky departure for the 43-year-old writer, with its emphasis on spirits, magical time-shifts and other unearthly phenomena. | | | Tan spoke enthusiastically about her book, but admitted that she feared it would be ridiculed as "Chinese superstition." She sat for an interview on the balcony of her San Francisco home, where she surreptitiously lit up a cigarette. | | | With her tiny Yorkshire terrier, Babbazo, snugly ensconced in her lap, Tan, a brilliant smile often belying the frankness of her words, talked about the burdens of fame, the world of Yin, and her struggles with her own emotional demons. |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_28/ai_108114697 Representing history in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, orig. | | | An introduction to Amy Tan by Bella Adams, University of Sunderland, from the Literary Encyclopedia. | | | A special New York Times feature on Amy Tan includes Times reviews of her books (this material is free but requires a one-time registration). |
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| | Anniina's Amy Tan Page |
| | Her work has been translated into twenty languages. | | | For her first book, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan won The National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989. | | | I do not have a contact address for her. |
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| | Authors on the Web - Amy Tan |
| | The first time Amy Tan learned her mother's real name was on: | | | D) Why Must I? and Sagwa the Cat | | | How old was Tan when her father and brother died of brain tumors? |
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| | Great Writing Amy Tan |
| | Does anything here come as a surprise to you? | | | This is the first chapter of Tan's novel about a Chinese-American woman, The Bonesetter's Daughter. | | | There's also a link there for a New York Times review of the book. |
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| | Amy Tan (b. 1952) |
| | Amy Tan's work is greatly indebted to and inspired by that of Maxine Hong Kingston, particularly to Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior. | | | Biographical facts and a discussion of her work in relation to Maxine Hong Kingston's may be found in my book, Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry. | | | Thus, it would be useful to read these two authors back-to-back as well as to compare Tan with other bicultural women writers who found their voices in the wake of the civil rights and women's liberation movements. |
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| | Amy_Tan |
| | In the mean time Tan has also published two books for children: The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat. | | | The book grew out of a short story, "Rules of the Game," which Tan had written for a writing workshop in 1985. | | | However, she has resisted being labeled as an "ethnic writer" and has resisted the idea that she is particularly or peculiarly a spokesperson for the Chinese-American community. |
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| | Lyme Disease |
| | Amy Tan is best known for her novels. | | | But these days Tan is telling a second story—about her long struggle with Lyme Disease. | | | The spiral bacteria had gone into her nervous system. |
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| | AWG_tan_amy |
| | This site invites the reader "to get to know the fairy-tale success story of novelist Amy Tan." The personal section acquaints one with Tan's family, education and tragedies, and the professional section presents a time-line of her writing career. | | | The academy's goal is to motivate and educate with these inspiring role models, one of whom is Amy Tan. | | | This collection of links is "an excellent place to begin research on Amy Tan." Visitors will find interviews, biographies, book reviews, a bibliography, and an "enlightening" photo of Amy Tan with her mother. |
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| | Amy Tan Biography |
| | Amy Tan began writing fiction as a distraction from her work as a technical writer. | | | She soon discovered that not only did she enjoy writing fiction as a hobby, she liked that it provided a way for her to think about and understand her life. | | | As an adolescent, Tan had difficulty accepting her Chinese heritage. |
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | Amy Tan Explores the life and career of Amy Tan, from her childhood in California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer. |
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| | "Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records Catalog Item |
| | She is the cover artist for Amy Tan's novels, and designer of the Rock Bottom Remainders' famous souvenir T-shirts. | | | For more info, see her DQYDJ bio page. | | | Sylvia Plath collected bees; a nice quiet pursuit, although it didn't seem to cheer her up. |
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| | Amy Tan Quotes |
| | My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club). | | | If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. | | | All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users. |
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| | eBay - Book: Amy Tan (ISBN: 0791058891) |
| | Explores the life and career of Amy Tan, from her childhood in California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer. | | | NEW - Amy Tan (Women of Achievement) by Charles J. Shie | | | Amy Tan (Women of Achievement) by Charles J. Shields |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Amy Tan |
| | The New York Review of Books: Amy Tan | | | The cover date of the next issue of The New York Review of Books will be April 6, 2006. |
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| | Amy Tan |
| | Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile | | | Father: John Tan (electrical engineer, Baptist minister, d. |
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