Bedtime eyes
By: by Amy Yamada ; translated by Yumi Gunji and Marc Jardine
Contributors: Gunji, Yumi; Jardine, Marc
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780312352264
Subjects: Interracial dating; African Americans; Fiction
Work titles: Beddotaimu aizu
Description: Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent--and controversial--novelists in Japan today. She bursted onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel "Bedtime Eyes," which for critics embodied the spirit of the 'shinjinru'--i.e. Generation X-- in much the same way that "Less Than Zero," "Bright Lights, Big City," and Douglas Coupland did in the U.S. "Bedtime Eyes" is the first English-language publication of three of Yamada's novellas/short novels: "Bedtime Eyes," "The Piano Player's Fingers" and "Jesse." While all are centered around the relationship between a Japanese woman and a black American man, each explores love, sex, and the vast gulf between from different and equally revealing viewpoints. Starkly imagined and sharply observed, Bedtime Eyes introduces to the English language some of Yamada's best known and most influential work.
Table of contents: title: Bedtime eyes; title: The piano player's fingers; title: Jesse.