Golden boy
a Gweilo childhood in British Hong Kong
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Author
Publication
2005 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3422385M
- ISBN-100312348177
- OCLC Control Number58843308
- OCLC Control Numbergoldenboymemorie00boot
- Library of Congress Control Number2005043968
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2732441
- Goodreads2489733
Classifications
- DDC828/.91409
- LCCPR6052.O63 Z464 2005
Description
"The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Adamson's first book published in North America, teems with cockatoos, kookaburras, lyrebirds, dollarbirds, and a host of waders from his native region. At once real presences and sly emissaries of the poetic imagination, these birds perform aspects of ourselves just as we assume their weird attributes: "The shadow your hand casts / resembles the mudlark, opening / its wings, calling and rocking, / perched in the pages / of my book." Coming from elsewhere, they transgress human boundaries, ignoring sign posts and political borders. As birds and words exchange places, Adamson charts their migration. His poems arrive as epistles from the other side of the world."--Publisher's website. An account of the author's coming-of-age in 1950s Hong Kong describes his experiences of early adolescence as a British citizen in a Chinese society and the conflicts between his Chinese-embracing mother and bigoted father.
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