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A Penguin Classic
It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight. Over the course of a single night, in a narrative that unfolds hour by hour, he meets a cast of strange characters-disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women, pesky authors-who eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations for upward mobility and become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive, and suffused with revolutionary fervor, and culminating in a dramatic face-off against capitalist power in the figure of the greedy businessman Mr. System, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality. More than eighty years after it was self-published, having been rejected by dozens of baffled publishers, it has become a classic of Asian American literature-a satirical send-up of class politics and capitalism and a shout of populist rage that still resonates today.
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics:
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039)
East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305)
The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)
A Penguin Classic
It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight. Over the course of a single night, in a narrative that unfolds hour by hour, he meets a cast of strange characters-disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women, pesky authors-who eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations for upward mobility and become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive, and suffused with revolutionary fervor, and culminating in a dramatic face-off against capitalist power in the figure of the greedy businessman Mr. System, The Hanging on Union Square is a work of blazing wit and originality. More than eighty years after it was self-published, having been rejected by dozens of baffled publishers, it has become a classic of Asian American literature-a satirical send-up of class politics and capitalism and a shout of populist rage that still resonates today.
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics:
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039)
East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305)
The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)
Floyd Cheung (editor, afterword, notes) is a professor of English and American studies at Smith College.
Hua Hsu (introduction) is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a professor of literature at Bard College, and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific and the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir Stay True.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143134022 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143134027 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Tsiang, H. T. |
| Redaktion: | Cheung, Floyd |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 197 x 129 x 14 mm |
| Von/Mit: | H. T. Tsiang |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.05.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,291 kg |
Floyd Cheung (editor, afterword, notes) is a professor of English and American studies at Smith College.
Hua Hsu (introduction) is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a professor of literature at Bard College, and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific and the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir Stay True.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143134022 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143134027 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Tsiang, H. T. |
| Redaktion: | Cheung, Floyd |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 197 x 129 x 14 mm |
| Von/Mit: | H. T. Tsiang |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.05.2019 |
| Gewicht: | 0,291 kg |
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