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Highlights
- Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel.
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards (First Novel) 2009 1st Winner
- About the Author: FRANCIE LIN, a former editor at The Threepenny Review, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan in 2001-2002.
- 320 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
Description
About the Book
A noirish work about family, fraternity, conscience, and the curious gulf between a man's culture and his deepest self, "The Foreigner" is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition, and a riveting story about what it means to be a foreigner--even in one's own family.Book Synopsis
Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Review Quotes
"Genre-wise, The Foreigner is best described as a thriller, rife with murders, drugs, secrets and betrayals. But you won't find any of the cardboard characters, clunky writing, or clichéd conventions that too often mar suspense fiction. Lin is equally attentive to description and plot. . . . Lovely, detailed writing makes you care about what happens to these characters. . . . A sequel would prove most welcome." --Los Angeles Times
"Lin demonstrates admirable range and skill in The Foreigner. She's capable of writing both marvelous humor and scenes of utter darkness in her tale of a naive man at a complete loss for dealing with the world." --San Francisco Chronicle "Lin has much to say about the clast of East and West and the sometimes shaky bonds of family, wrapping her sly observations in an entertaining coating of ever-propulsive narrative that turns Emerson from a rich boy into a warier, sleeker, wiser man." --The Baltimore Sun "[A] darkly funny debut." --Kirkus ReviewsAbout the Author
FRANCIE LIN, a former editor at The Threepenny Review, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan in 2001-2002. She lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .91 Inches (D)
Weight: .67 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: Francie Lin
Language: English
Street Date: May 27, 2008
TCIN: 1001921267
UPC: 9780312364045
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-5226
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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