Danger and Beauty Author:Jessica Hagedorn Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience.??"Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who in the process are creating a new American Literature."-Russell Banks??"[Hagedorn] sees her na... more »tive land from both near and far, with ambivalent love, the only kind of love worth writing about."-John Updike??Jessica Hagedorn is a performance artist, poet, playwright, and formerly a commentator on NPR. Her novel, Dogeaters, won an American Book Award. Other books include the groundbreaking Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and The Gangster of Love.??« less
ISBN-13: 9780872863873 ISBN-10: 0872863875 Publication Date: 5/2002 Pages:240 Edition:1st City L Rating: