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Beautiful as Yesterday

2009-07-07 Fiction
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Release : 2009-07-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful as Yesterday by : Fan Wu

Download or read book Beautiful as Yesterday written by Fan Wu. This book was released on 2009-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid has never settled for anything; she prefers her bohemian friends’ culture to her own, and is haunted by her college boyfriend’s tragic death. When their widowed mother travels to the United States for the first time, they can’t avoid a family get-together. Amid all it stirs up, it becomes clear that the uneasy relationship between the sisters has roots deeper than either had ever acknowledged—and extends to their parents and their homeland. Stretching from mid-century China to the United States at the turn of the millennium, Beautiful as Yesterday explores issues of identity, of family and friendship, love and loss. Written in beautifully crafted prose, this is a penetrating exploration of what it means to belong, and the impact of history and memories on one’s life.

So Yesterday

2005-09-08 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2005-09-08
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis So Yesterday by : Scott Westerfeld

Download or read book So Yesterday written by Scott Westerfeld. This book was released on 2005-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder who was the first kid to keep a wallet on a big chunky chain, or wear way-too-big pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards? These are the Innovators, the people on the very cusp of cool. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Braque's job is finding them for the retail market. But when a big-money client disappears, Hunter must use all his cool-hunting talents to find her. Along the way he's drawn into a web of brand-name intrigue- a missing cargo of the coolest shoes he's ever seen, ads for products that don't exist, and a shadowy group dedicated to the downfall of consumerism as we know it.

Beautiful As Yesterday

2011-03-31 Fiction
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Release : 2011-03-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 86X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful As Yesterday by : Fan Wu

Download or read book Beautiful As Yesterday written by Fan Wu. This book was released on 2011-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A delicate and brilliant novel on the arguments, triumphs, loves and differences of a Chinese family in America’ Xinran, author of Good Women of China Mary and Ingrid are sisters, born and brought up in China, now living in the US. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, churchgoer, and with a well-paid job. But she is tormented by adultery, her grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid, meanwhile, has never settled to anything, and is haunted by her college boyfriend’s tragic death. When their widowed mother travels to the US for the first time, they can’t avoid a family get-together. Amid all it stirs up, it becomes clear that the uneasy relationship between the sisters has its roots deeper than either has ever acknowledged – and extends to their parents and their homeland. Beautiful as Yesterday is a penetrating exploration of belonging; of family and friendship, love and loss. ‘Fan Wu is an exciting storyteller with an original take on the disarray of family history and American culture, and, ultimately, how we manage to define ourselves’ Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

2012-09-13 Fiction
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Release : 2012-09-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story) by : Roald Dahl

Download or read book Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story) written by Roald Dahl. This book was released on 2012-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday was Beautiful is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Yesterday was Beautiful, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a bailed out pilot in Greece looking for assistance from the natives . . . Yesterday was Beautiful is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War. This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Juliet Stevenson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

2020-09-28 Fiction
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Release : 2020-09-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 027/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by : Edith Nesbit

Download or read book Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare written by Edith Nesbit. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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