num_pages: 240
description: Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Here in one volume are this exciting writer's first two books, Dangerous Music and Pet Food &amp; Tropical Apparitions , along with a generous selection of her work that reveals a powerful and writty continuation of her journey as a singer and searcher, woman and questioner. "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 native land from both near and far, with ambivalent love, the only kind of love worth writing about." —John Updike "Ms. Hagedorn is deliciously wicked . . . " —Caryn James, New York Times 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 An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and The Gangster of Love .
language: English
title: Danger and Beauty
titlecomplete: Danger and Beauty
genres: Asia, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 77
publisher: City Lights Publishers