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Earnest, classical in form, grave and raw.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Shawn Wong
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 113
- Publisher
- Plume, University of Washington Press, I. Reed Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780918408143
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First sentence
“Back in the early fifties, when I was four, my father and mother drove from Berkeley to New York and back.”
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