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By: Richie, Donald
Price: ¥3,000.00
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press: 2002
Seller ID: RWARE0000047293
ISBN: 1880656698
Condition: Very Good
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.(Signe d by Author) "Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of perm anent value."--Times Literary Supplement. "Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticis ms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful adol escents, and keen comparisons of Japanes and Western culture." --San Franci sco Chronicle "A learned, beautifully paced elegy."--London Revi... View more info
By: Richie, Donald
Price: ¥15,000.00
Publisher: SARU Press: 2007
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: RWARE0000042061
ISBN: 096533046X
Condition: Like New
View from the Chuo Line and Other Stories by Donald Richie (Signed by the A uthor) Fiction. Asian Studies. In this collection of twenty-seven short stories Donald Richie has shown people set in their ways but caught off guard by life itself. The minimality of the form emphasizes that moment of truth which James Joyce called an epiphany--the revelation which he said was the only reason for writing, or reading stories. The people are almost all Japanese--and Richie is not. Yet, though the peculiarities of culture may form them, it is a common humanity which is his subject. If, as Henry James on... View more info