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The Fifth Book of Peace; Maxine Hong Kingston

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From: Solares Hill
Date: 20040716
Author:Anonymous

There's a company of authors whose books were destroyed by fire, water or other people's negligence, that includes T.E. Lawrence, Richard Burton the explorer, Thomas Carlyle and Ernest Hemingway. Lost, left on a train, burned in the hearth, burned in a house fire; what writer has not had nightmares about such a thing happening?

In the days of computers, disks, back-ups and easy multiple printing, the risk seems less, surely; but Maxine Hong Kingston left her home in Berkeley in October 1991 to go to her father's funeral and her whole neighborhood burned down. When she returned to the scene, ...

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