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Butterfly's Child by Davis-Gardner, Angela
by Davis-Gardner, Angela | HC | VeryGood
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A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780385340946
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
038534094X
ISBN-13
9780385340946
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038308977
Product Key Features
Book Title
Butterfly's Child : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Coming of Age, Literary
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-005562
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
“Who ever thought the story was over? There was, after all, a child. Butterfly’s Child begins where Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly ends. Expansively imagined, carefully researched, and beautifully told, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever longed to know what came next after that famous unhappily-ever-after ending.�-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club “Secrets unfold like a Japanese fan in Butterfly's Child . With jewel-like prose, Angela Davis-Gardner has created an enchantment-a novel so beautiful, mysterious, and compelling that I had to stay up into the wee hours to finish it in one sitting.�-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls “I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice-and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.�-Josephine Humphreys, Southern Book Award–winning author of Nowhere Else on Earth “An utterly fascinating and entertaining novel whose transcultural themes are particularly relevant today. It is also a deftly and lyrically written novel, well deserving of a wide readership.�-Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love “Angela Davis-Gardner weds artful, beautifully sensuous prose to deeply involving, page-turning story. She’s among our best. Take the word ‘our’ in that sentence to mean everyone, anywhere-the whole human family.�-Richard Bausch, author of Peace “What happened to the son of Madame Butterfly, the tragic heroine of the operatic masterpiece? Davis-Gardner tells his enthralling story in a complex but tightly knit novel that is entrancing to read, beautiful to remember.�-Fred Chappell, former poet laureate of North Carolina and author of I Am One of You Forever “ Butterfly’s Child is one of the finest books by a living writer that I have read in years. Davis-Gardner explores, with great tenderness, a boy’s search for family, and she moves between the American and the Japanese cultures in a way that both informs and involves the reader completely.�-Elizabeth Cox, author of The Slow Moon “Beautifully written and deeply stirring, this is a timeless rendering of marriage at its best and worst, of the lengths a parent will go for a child, of how one decision or action can roll on and on in its effects. Butterfly’s Child has the drama of an opera and the meticulous realism of a profound psychological novel.�-Peggy Payne, author of Sister India "A lovely, haunting novel, layered and beautifully written&I was captured by this book and couldn't put it down." –Susan Richards Shreve, author of A Student of Living Things “American multiculturalism is for me the background of the most fascinating stories in our recent literature. Angela Davis-Gardner takes us to the early days of this phenomenon as she completes-and in some places corrects-the Madame Butterfly legend. Amid the dullness and small mindedness of 19th century American life, her Japanese characters-especially the indomitable Benji-stand in bright contrast. Davis-Gardner enlightens us with her subtle insights and startles us with one major surprise, in this touching story of an Asian mother who sacrifices everything for her child.�-David Guy, author of Jake Fades and The Autobiography of My Body, "A richly imagined literary sequel to Puccini''s Madama Butterfly & In its way, it holds its own alongside the modern Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy. For all its melancholy and madness, it strikes themes of hope and renewal, and believing in the unbelievable."- Kirkus Reviews "Who ever thought the story was over? There was, after all, a child. Butterfly's Child begins where Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly ends. Expansively imagined, carefully researched, and beautifully told, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever longed to know what came next after that famous unhappily-ever-after ending."-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Secrets unfold like a Japanese fan in Butterfly''s Child . With jewel-like prose, Angela Davis-Gardner has created an enchantment-a novel so beautiful, mysterious, and compelling that I had to stay up into the wee hours to finish it in one sitting."-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls "Brilliant and inspired . . . Butterfly''s Child reveals, in ways both devastating and surprising, how the human heart and the world we live in are rarely as they appear. Once you enter Benji''s world and begin his journey, there is no turning back and no slowing down." -Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes "I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice-and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably."-Josephine Humphreys, Southern Book Awardwinning author of Nowhere Else on Earth "An utterly fascinating and entertaining novel whose transcultural themes are particularly relevant today. It is also a deftly and lyrically written novel, well deserving of a wide readership."-Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love "Angela Davis-Gardner weds artful, beautifully sensuous prose to deeply involving, page-turning story. She's among our best. Take the word 'our' in that sentence to mean everyone, anywhere-the whole human family."-Richard Bausch, author of Peace "What happened to the son of Madame Butterfly, the tragic heroine of the operatic masterpiece? Davis-Gardner tells his enthralling story in a complex but tightly knit novel that is entrancing to read, beautiful to remember."-Fred Chappell, former poet laureate of North Carolina and author of I Am One of You Forever " Butterfly's Child is one of the finest books by a living writer that I have read in years. Davis-Gardner explores, with great tenderness, a boy's search for family, and she moves between the American and the Japanese cultures in a way that both informs and involves the reader completely."-Elizabeth Cox, author of The Slow Moon "Beautifully written and deeply stirring, this is a timeless rendering of marriage at its best and worst, of the lengths a parent will go for a child, of how one decision or action can roll on and on in its effects. Butterfly's Child has the drama of an opera and the meticulous realism of a profound psychological novel."-Peggy Payne, author of Sister India "A lovely, haunting novel, layered and beautifully written&I was captured by this book and couldn''t put it down." Susan Richards Shreve, author of A Student of Living Things "Amid the dullness and small mindedness of 19th century American life, Davis-Gardner''s Japanese characters-especially the indomitable Benji-stand in bright contrast. Davis-Gardner enlightens us with her subtle insights and startles us with one major surprise, in this touching story of an Asian mother who sacrifices everything for her child."-David Guy, author of Jake Fades and The Autobiography of My Body "Immediately engaging&Though Davis-Garner ( Plum Wine ) inherited her characters, they are complex, dimensional beings in her hands."- Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition., "Angela Davis-Gardner has created an enchantment."-Lee Smith, author ofThe Last Girls "Who ever thought the story was over? There was, after all, a child.Butterfly's Childbegins where Puccini's operaMadame Butterflyends. Expansively imagined, carefully researched, and beautifully told, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever longed to know what came next after that famous unhappily-ever-after ending."-Karen Joy Fowler, author ofThe Jane Austen Book Club "I readButterfly's Childin one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice-and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably."-Josephine Humphreys, Southern Book Awardwinning author ofNowhere Else on Earth "An utterly fascinating and entertaining novel whose transcultural themes are particularly relevant today. It is also a deftly and lyrically written novel, well deserving of a wide readership."-Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love "Angela Davis-Gardner weds artful, beautifully sensuous prose to deeply involving, page-turning story. She's among our best. Take the word 'our' in that sentence to mean everyone, anywhere-the whole human family."-Richard Bausch, author ofPeace "What happened to the son of Madame Butterfly, the tragic heroine of the operatic masterpiece? Davis-Gardner tells his enthralling story in a complex but tightly knit novel that is entrancing to read, beautiful to remember."-Fred Chappell, former poet laureate of North Carolina and author ofI Am One of You Forever "Butterfly's Childis one of the finest books by a living writer that I have read in years. Davis-Gardner explores, with great tenderness, a boy's search for family, and she moves between the American and the Japanese cultures in a way that both informs and involves the reader completely."-Elizabeth Cox, author ofThe Slow Moon "Beautifully written and deeply stirring, this is a timeless rendering of marriage at its best and worst, of the lengths a parent will go for a child, of how one decision or action can roll on and on in its effects.Butterfly's Childhas the drama of an opera and the meticulous realism of a profound psychological novel."-Peggy Payne, author ofSister India
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha, and instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. Frank struggles to keep the farm going while coping with his guilt and longing for the deceased Butterfly. Deeply devout Kate is torn between her Christian principles and her resentment of raising another woman's child. And Benji's life as an outcast--neither fully American nor fully Japanese--forces him to forge an identity far from the life he has known. When the truth about Benji surfaces, it will splinter this family's fragile dynamic, sending repercussions spiraling through their close-knit rural community and sending Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco, then across the ocean to Nagasaki, where he will uncover the truth about his mother's tragic death. A sweeping portrait of a changing American landscape at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a Japanese culture irrevocably altered by foreign influence, Butterfly's Child explores people in transition--from old worlds to new customs, heart's desires to vivid realities--in an epic tale that plays out as both a conclusion to and an inspiration for one of the most famous love stories ever told., A sweeping portrait of a changing American landscape at the end of the 19th century, and of a Japanese culture irrevocably altered by foreign influence, "Butterfly's Child" explores people in transition in an epic tale.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.A9384B88 2011
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