The Fifth Book of Peace (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Maxine Hong
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Fiction and nonfiction
- Genres: Long fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Writing, California, Vietnam War, War, Multiculturalism, Creative process, Peace, Fire, Hawaii
When the hillside fires raged into Oakland in 1991 and demolished the Kingston home, Maxine Hong Kingston was devastated. She lost to the flames The Fourth Book of Peace, a long labor of love that revisited Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and carried out Kingston's resolve to bring her characters to resolution by depicting them at older, perhaps wiser stages of their existence. Devastated especially since the fire followed close on the death of her father, she found herself unable to write. Her idea for the book had originally come from the search for the ancient Chinese...
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