Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
- ISBN-10
- 0307787907
- ISBN-13
- 9780307787903
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-02-09
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Description
Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.
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