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. The novel was first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005. 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, 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 the author of the award-winning novel Homebase and an editor of several anthologies of Asian American literature, including Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers and The Big Aiiieeeee!. He is an English Professor and the former director of the University Honors Program at the University of Washington.
Movie version[edit]
A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen. The film was acquired by IFC Films.
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