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1 online resource |
| Summary |
"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker ) by the father of Korean American literature A Penguin Classic Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature. Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics: America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305) The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022) |
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Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 6 |
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930 Lexile. |
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Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin Classics, 2019. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1247 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Fiction. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Original 9780143134305 |
| ISBN |
9780525506119 (electronic bk) |
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