00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862467189 Buklod 20240201112053.0 m | | ta 221116r20042003nyua r |000 0deng d 0007170408 9780007170401 (iLib)UPBAG-00045771616 OLC BAG rda eng PS 3570 A48 Z47 2004 Tan, Amy author. The opposite of fate memories of a writing life Amy Tan. London Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2004. ©2003. 413 pages in various pagings illustrations 20 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Reprint. Originally published: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life -- How we knew -- Question of fate -- Faith -- Changing the past: Last week -- My grandmother's choice -- Thinly disguised memoir -- Persona errata -- Scent -- American circumstances and Chinese character: Fish cheeks -- Dangerous advice -- Midlife confidential -- Arrival banquet -- Joy luck and Hollywood -- Strong winds, strong influences: What she meant -- Confessions -- Pretty beyond belief -- Most hateful words -- My love affair with Vladimir Nabokov -- Luck, chance, and a charmed life: Inferior decorating -- Room with a view, new kitchen, and ghosts -- Retreat to reality -- My hair, my face, my nails -- Ghosts of my imagination -- Choice of words: What the library means to me -- Mother tongue -- Language of discretion -- Five writing tips -- Required reading and other dangerous subjects -- Angst and the second book -- Best stories -- Hope: What I would remember -- To complain is American -- Opposite of fate. Tan, Amy. Tan, Amy Family. Novelists, American 20th century Family relationships. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Chinese Americans Biography. Free will and determinism. Chinese American families. Fiction Authorship. Fate and fatalism. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 3570 A48 Z47 2004 Book