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  by Barry Frauman
  ISBN13: 978-1-4010-7686-3 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN: 1-4010-7686-6 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN13: 978-1-4010-7687-0 (Hardback)
  ISBN: 1-4010-7687-4 (Hardback)
  Pages: 164
  Subject: POETRY / General

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Paperback prices reflect 15% discount off retail
Hardback prices reflect 10% discount off retail

Description

WEST-EAST itself is a narrative poem set in roughly contemporary San Francisco: Perry, a schoolteacher from Chicago, and Pao Ling, a student film-maker from Taiwan, begin an love affair, encouraged by Perry's Russian landlady Sonya, and by Cordelia, a friend of Pao Ling with whom Sonya eventually pairs. The men face jealousy from a gay acquaintance; and the romance might end by the clash of Perry and Pao Ling's respective cultures, with the pressure Pao Ling feels to return to Taiwan and marry.

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