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PublisherSpiegel & Grau
ISBN-100679644881
ISBN-139780679644880
eBay Product ID (ePID)117298450
Product Key Features
Book TitleFresh Off the Boat : a Memoir
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicEthnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Personal Memoirs, Culinary, General, Lawyers & Judges
GenreCooking, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorEddie Huang
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-025704
ReviewsPraise for Fresh Off the Boat "Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work-and an important one. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here-a question, a conversation, an argument: Who are we? If somebody's going to put a thumb in your eye, it should probably be Eddie Huang. He does everything with style."-Anthony Bourdain "Brash, leading-edge, and unapologetically hip, Huang reconfigures the popular foodie memoir into something worthwhile and very memorable."- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Praise for Fresh Off the Boat "Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true." - New York Times Book Review "Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style." -Anthony Bourdain "Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It's a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest." - Chicago Tribune "Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles." - Interview "Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won't look or sound like anything that's come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight." -Bookforum From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Fresh Off the Boat "Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true." -- New York Times Book Review "Mercilessly funny and provocative, Fresh Off the Boat is also a serious piece of work. Eddie Huang is hunting nothing less than Big Game here. He does everything with style." --Anthony Bourdain "Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It's a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest." -- Chicago Tribune "Huang is a fearless raconteur. [His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles." -- Interview "Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won't look or sound like anything that's come before. A single, kinetic passage from Fresh Off the Boat . . . is all you need to get that straight." --Bookforum
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal647.95092 B
Synopsis"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He's bigger than food."--Anthony Bourdain NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS" Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus--the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night--and one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned his way through American culture, defying every "model minority" stereotype along the way. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food--from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad's restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mother's kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he loved--past and present, family and food--into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he'd melded into his own identity. Funny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, "Fresh Off the Boat "recasts the immigrant's story for the twenty-first century. It's a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American. Praise for "Fresh Off the Boat" "Brash and funny . . . outrageous, courageous, moving, ironic and true."--"New York Times Book Review" "Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy and] vital . . . It's a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all."--Dwight Garner, "The""New York Times"" " "Uproariously funny . . . emotionally honest."--"Chicago Tribune" "Huang is a fearless raconteur. His] writing is at once hilarious and provocative; his incisive wit pulls through like a perfect plate of dan dan noodles."--"Interview" "Although writing a memoir is an audacious act for a thirty-year-old, it is not nearly as audacious as some of the things Huang did and survived even earlier. . . . Whatever he ends up doing, you can be sure it won't look or sound like anything that's come before. A single, kinetic passage from "Fresh Off the Boat" . . . is all you need to get that straight.""--Bookforum"
LC Classification NumberTX910.5.H83A3 2013
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- 12. Okt. 2021
Eddie Huang is a compelling beast!
I loved loved loved finally being able to read this book! Plus I love me some Eddie Huang hahaha. For reals tho, you’ve got to read this. Couldn’t put down the book & I loved reading the footnotes included. Couldn’t help but to look up the music references as well. Incredibly funny found myself laughing out loud. Kudos to you Eddie for being courageous & honest through it all. Loved it. You will too.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Nov. 2020
Great book!
Amazing storytelling!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 06. Jul. 2021
The REAL Fresh Off the Boat
Entertaining content!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
