Tripmaster Monkey
His Fake Book
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • From the acclaimed author of The Woman Warrior and China Men comes a novel centered on the life of a Chinese-American hippie and aspiring playwright as he explores the complexities of identity, culture, and artistic ambition.
"A dazzling leap of imaginative sympathy [and] narrative magic."—The New York Times Book Review
Wittman Ah Sing is a young Chinese-American hippie in San Francisco during the late sixties. Named after America's quintessential poet, indomitably garrulous and free-spirited, Wittman is as American as James Dean. Yet he also bears a strking resemblance to Monkey, the trickster-saint of Chinese legend who helped bring the Buddhist scriptures from India.
Driven by his dream of writing…
$19.95
June 10, 1990
Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace, among other works. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. She worked for many years as a senior lecturer in creative writing at UC Berkeley. Kingston lives in Oakland, California.
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez; Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior, China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston; Introduction by Mary Gordon
The Fifth Book of Peace
Maxine Hong Kingston
To Be the Poet
Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston