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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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The Boat
It's hard not to sense autobiography in Nam Le's opener, in which a struggling Vietnamese-born creative writing student receives advice from a friend. "You could totally exploit the Vietnamese thing," he exclaims, "but instead you choose to write abo ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0143009613
- ISBN-13: 9780143009610
- Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The Boat
Too often, the stamp of a creative writing workshop is a sign of formulaic fiction; of books bred in comfortable seminars. In this collection's first and strongest story, Nam Le twists that perception into a frame for the rest of his writing as the n ... (read full critics)