American Knees
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| Author | Shawn Wong |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 240 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-295-98496-4 |
| OCLC | 57342291 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.O583 A8 2005 |
American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005. It was conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club,[citation needed] Wong's book depicts the love life of an East Asian American man with three women.
The book chronicles the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American university administrator who first marries and divorces a Chinese-American woman, then dates and breaks up with a hapa (biracial) younger woman, and later gets involved with a Vietnamese-American co-worker haunted by memories of the war.
About the author[edit]
Shawn Wong is an English Professor and the former director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington.
He is also the author of the award-winning novel Homebase and an editor of many anthologies of Asian American literature, including Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers and The Big Aiiieeeee!.
Movie version[edit]
A film adaptation, called Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding. The film was acquired by IFC Films.
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