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The All-American by Joe Milan: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2023-04-04
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781324035657
- Book Title
- All-American : a Novel
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Coming of Age, Sports
- Item Weight
- 18.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
132403565X
ISBN-13
9781324035657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20057263140
Product Key Features
Book Title
All-American : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age, Sports
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-048804
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
With lean, propulsive prose, Joe Milan Jr. has created an unforgettable character in American fiction. Part high drama, part dark comedy of the absurd, The All-American is as wonderfully entertaining as it is moving, and I simply could not put it down., An explosively powerful, unpretentiously original, darkly comic novel about dreams fulfilled by the most unexpected, convoluted path. There are no model minorities, no redemptions, neither heroes nor villains, only those who strive against the odds., A potent, spellbinding novel about the meaning of family and the pull of home. Joe Milan Jr. is a writer with guts and talent., A funny and heartbreaking novel that gets to the heart of our post-national world... revealing the human consequences of white altruism and cultural myopia., The All-American is a compulsively readable page turner that continues to surprise. The novel burns with major themes and issues central to America. At heart are the central questions: Who gets to be American, and what does it mean to belong to a country?, Only a novelist as gifted as Milan Jr could have transformed this nightmare tale of a world lost into profoundly moving meditation on nationhood, belonging and the possibility of rebirth ... with this incredible debut Milan has rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere., The All-American has the speed, power, and vision of a superior running back. Milan Jr. renders Bucky's odyssey with extraordinary energy and urgency., An irreverent, bold page-turner, self-assured and engrossing, this is one of those rare first novels that breathes new life into the journey toward self-revelation. Endlessly rewarding., The All American is an irreverent, bold page-turner exploring what happens when inconvenient parts of your identity come searching for you. This self-assured, engrossing debut is one of those rare first novels that breathes new life into the journey toward self-revelation. Solid and endlessly rewarding., Milan sustains in his narrator an amusingly bewildered, blundering, bumptious voice along with a leavening sense of absurdity...An unusual take on undocumented immigration that makes for a strong debut., With lean, propulsive prose, Joe Milan, Jr. has created an unforgettable character in American fiction, Beyonghak 'Bucky' Yi, a 'stranded townie' whose gifts as a running back may just be able to change his life for the better. Part high-drama, part dark comedy of the absurd, The All American is as wonderfully entertaining as it is moving, and I simply could not put it down. I suspect that you won't be able to either., An explosively powerful, unpretentiously original, darkly comic novel about dreams fulfilled by the most unexpected, convoluted and crookedest path. In this universe, there are no model minorities, no redemptions, neither heroes nor villains, only those who strive against the odds of underprivilege. Milan's refreshingly different voice and narrative keeps you reading to the sweetly bitter and weirdly hopeful end., The All-American is a potent, spellbinding novel about the meaning of family and the pull of home. A true and specific story of Asian American identity and adoption, football fantasies and immigration detention nightmares. Joe Milan Jr. is a writer with guts and talent., With lean, propulsive prose, Joe Milan, Jr. has created an unforgettable character in American fiction, Beyonghak 'Bucky' Yi, a 'stranded townie' whose gifts as a running back may just be able to change his life for the better. Part high-drama, part dark comedy of the absurd, The All American is as wonderfully entertaining as it is moving, and I simply could not put it down. I suspect that you won't be able to either.--Andre Dubus III, author of Gone So Long The All-American is a potent, spellbinding novel about the meaning of family and the pull of home. A true and specific story of Asian American identity and adoption, football fantasies and immigration detention nightmares. Joe Milan Jr. is a writer with guts and talent.--Jean Chen Ho, author of Fiona and Jane A funny and heartbreaking novel that gets to the heart of our post-national world... revealing the human consequences of white altruism and cultural myopia.--Jess Row, author of White Flights, With the speed, power, and vision of a superior running back, Joe Milan Jr. renders Bucky's odyssey with extraordinary energy and urgency., n explosively powerful, unpretentiously original, darkly comic novel about dreams fulfilled by the most unexpected, convoluted path. There are no model minorities, no redemptions, neither heroes nor villains, only those who strive against the odds., A profoundly moving meditation on nationhood, belonging, and the possibility of rebirth. With this incredible debut, Joe Milan Jr. has rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere.
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance; he can't even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the U.S. government to deport him to South Korea, he's forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and as an outsider, Bucky has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn't know he had. In an expat bar in Seoul, in the bleak barracks of his Korean military, on a remote island where an erratic sergeant fights a shadow-war with North Korean spies, and in the remote town where he seeks out his drunken, indebted biological father, Bucky has to assemble the building blocks of a new language and stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch. That means managing his ego, insecurities, sexual desires, family legacies, and allegiances in order to make it back home--wherever that might be--and determine who he is to himself, who he is to others, and what kind of man he wants to become., A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature., In rural Washington State, Bucky, a Korean American high school senior, trains hard to pursue his only ambition: to play college football. But when the US government deports him to South Korea, he finds himself alone in a country where he can't speak the language (he can't even pronounce his "paper name," Yi Beyonghak), is conscripted to the army, and is obligated to pay off the debts of his long-missing bio-father. From a hostel and expat bar in Seoul; to rural South Korea, where his bio-father is drowning in alcohol; to a remote island where a crazed sergeant still fights a bitter war with North Korean enemies, Beyonghak battles a morass of bureaucracy and betrayal in order to find his way home. Along the way, he must face down essential questions about who he is to others, and the type of man he wants to become., Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph--full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom.
LC Classification Number
PS3613.I47526A77
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