Lester Higata's 20th century / Barbara Hamby.
"Lester Higata Knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the lanai behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a lawn chair near the little greenhouse where Lester Kept his orchids." Thus begins Barbara Hamby's magical narrative of the life of a Japan...
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| Series: | John Simmons short fiction award.
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| 500 | |a Linked short stories. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161) | ||
| 520 | |a "Lester Higata Knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the lanai behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a lawn chair near the little greenhouse where Lester Kept his orchids." Thus begins Barbara Hamby's magical narrative of the life of a Japanese American man in Honolulu. -- | ||
| 520 | |a "Oh my this is a very great collection. Innovative in structure but deeply accessible in every pitch-perfect moment, Lester Higata's 20th Century brilliantly explores the yearning that is central not only to most great literary narratives but also to every life lived on this planet: the yearning for self, for identity, for a place in the universe. Barbara Hamby has for some time been one of America's finest poets; with this book, she has become on of our finest fiction writers as well."---Robert Olen Butler -- | ||
| 520 | |a "I love Lester Higata's 20th Century, a fabulous first collection of funny, poignant, intelligent, and beautifully plotted stories in which Hamby creates a vivid portrait of Hawai'i and introduces us to Lester Higata, his sprawling family, and his odd and unforgettable friends."---Elizabeth Stuckey-French, author, The First Paper Girl of Red Oak, Iowa and Mermaids on the Moon -- | ||
| 520 | |a "Barbara Hamby Loves her characters and trusts them, and it shows on every page of these deeply imagined and beautifully rendered stories. Each story seems like a gift, and the collection as a whole leaves the reader feeling as if these people are his own brothers and sisters, cousins, lovers, and friends, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers--- one's own extended family---which, after all, Hamby seems to reveal, they are."--- Paul Harding, author, Tinkers --Book Jacket. | ||
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