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Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha
Vintage 1999 0-09-928285-2 / 9780099282853 Paperback NF
This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper sc reens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
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Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha
Knopf September 23, 1 0-375-40011-7 / 9780375400117 Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
A tight clean copy, 8th printing. According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and his tory from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tok yo who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geish a. This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent years charming the very rich and famous. The result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social
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Golden, Arthur Memoirs Of A Geisha
Vintage Books / Random House 1999 0-375-70440-X / 9780375704406 Paperback Very Good
Arthur Golden's brilliant debut novel, Memoirs of a Geisha, is a reminder o f just how silly the exhortation 'write what you know!' can be. Clearly Gol den, a 40-something American male, has never lived anything remotely simila r to the experiences of a geisha coming of age in the '30s, the glory days of Kyoto's Gion pleasure district. Yet it is precisely this vanished world that he re-creates with subtlety, sensuality, and supreme authority, bringi ng to life characters so complete and idiosyncratic - so fully sprung from the eras he has evoked - that his novel ultimately overwhelms us, as seduct ive and beguiling as the geisha of its title.
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Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha Uk
Trafalgar Square 1998 0-09-977151-9 / 9780099771517 Paperback Very Good
According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties and cunning s eduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and hist ory from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Toky o who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geisha . This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail o f geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent y ears charming the very rich and famous.
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Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
Vintage January 10, 199 0-679-78158-7 / 9780679781585 Paperback Good
According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of fiction, Golden trained as long and hard as any geisha who must master the arts of music, dance, clever conversation, crafty battle with rival beauties, and cunning seduction of wealthy patrons. After earning degrees in Japanese art and his tory from Harvard and Columbia--and an M.A. in English--he met a man in Tok yo who was the illegitimate offspring of a renowned businessman and a geish a. This meeting inspired Golden to spend 10 years researching every detail of geisha culture, chiefly relying on the geisha Mineko Iwasaki, who spent years charming the very rich and famous.
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