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Author	Yamamoto, Hisaye.
Title	Seventeen syllables and other stories / Hisaye Yamamoto ; introduction by King-Kok Cheung.
Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 6	F Y	IN LIBRARY

Edition	Revised and expanded edition.
Description	xxiii, 178 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178).
Local Note	Forth paperback printing, 2006
Contents	Introduction -- The high-heeled shoes, a memoir -- Seventeen syllables -- The legend of Miss Sasagawara -- Wilshire bus -- The brown house -- Yoneko's earthquake -- Morning rain -- Epithalmium -- Las Vegas Charley -- Life among the oil fields, a memoir -- The Eskimo connection -- My father can beat Muhammad Ali -- Underground lady -- A day in Little Tokyo -- Reading and writing -- Preface to the revised and expanded edition -- Death rides the rails to Poston -- Eucalyptus -- A fire in Fontana -- Florentine Gardens.
Subject	Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Internment camp inmates -- Fiction.
	Internment camps -- Fiction.
	Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Added Author	Cheung, King-Kok, 1954- author of introduction.
Spine Title	Seventeen syllables
ISBN	0813529530 (alk. paper)
	9780813529530 (alk. paper)

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