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When fox is a thousand / Larissa Lai.
- Title
- When fox is a thousand / Larissa Lai.
- Author
- Lai, Larissa
- Publication
- Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.L2815 W44 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 258 p. : port.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- A lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore plus elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox spirit growing toward wisdom and her 1000th birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver. With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval Chinea, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhibit women's bodies in order to cause mischief).
- Subject
- Asian American women > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1551521687 :
- 9781551521688
- OCLC
- 55474367
- SCSB-12786903
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library