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Loading... Audrey Hepburn's Neckby Alan Brown
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.schlaikjer.net/reviews/024... ( )A wonderful and poignant novel set in Japan, about a young man's fascination with Americans and their ways, and his own journey from the dark unknown of his parent' past during World War II. Well-written, painful at times, and illuminating about the two cultures. A very promising first novel. 0.014 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0671526723, Paperback)Alan Brown's first novel is a comic tale of sexual desire and bad manners set in contemporary Tokyo. Twenty-three-year-old cartoonist Toshi is obsessed with slim American women, and his best friend, an American named Paul, is obsessed with Japanese men. Toshi begins having an affair with Jane, his English teacher, who turns out to be insane; Paul has an endless stream of Japanese boyfriends all of whom leave him. Audrey Hepburn's Neck is slyly funny and very observant. Brown is equally concerned with sex as an obsession and the erotics of cultural differences, but his comic masterstrokes are in being able to conjure up the humor in looking for sex and the sometimes tragedy in getting it. Audrey Hepburn's Neck is resonant, charming and very witty.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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