Tripmaster Monkey His Fake Book Author:Maxine Hong Kingston Wittman Ah Sing is a young Chinese-American hippie in San Francisco during the late ixties. Names After America's quintessential poet indomitably garrulous and freespirited, Wittman is as American as James Dean. Yet he also bears a striking resemblance to Monkey, the trickster-saint of Chinese legend who helped bring the Buddhist scriptures f... more »rom India. Driven by his dream of writing and staging an epic production of interwoven Chinese novels and folktales, his life becomes an extraordinary journey through an era as fantastic as his ambition - told in a novel by turns surreal, exuberantly charged with spectacle, violence, and Chinese "talk-story," and wildly, bitterly funny.« less