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West, Clare.

The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan ; retold by Clare West. - Simplified ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - Oxford bookworms library. Human interest. Stage 6 . - Oxford bookworms library. Stage 6. Human interest. .

"There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN: 9780194792639 0194792633

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Readers.
Chinese American women--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PE1126.W478 / J69 2008