Ocean Of Words
by Jin, Ha
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.War Trash, The Crazed, The Bridegroom, Waiting, In the Pond, and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
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OCEAN OF WORDS: ARMY STORIES
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Ocean of Words: Army Stories (Signed First Edition)
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Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1996. First edition. Softcover. First printing. A collection of poems about Jin's time in the Chinese army. Jin won the National Book Award for his novel "Waiting." A clean very near fine copy in wrappers. Signed and inscribed by Jin on the half title page in the year of publication. Item Price
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Cambridge, MA: Zoland, 1996. Rubber stamped on half-title page "Judge's Official Copy / The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Entry". 205 pages. Inscribed by author on title page "To ___ / Good wishes / Ha Jin".. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus.. Item Price
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Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1996 [1999]. First Hardcover Edition. Octavo; red paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 205pp, [1]. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $24.00). The Chinese author's PEN/Hemingway Award-winning book of short fiction, based on his time spent in the People's Liberation… Read more about this item Item Price
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OCEAN OF WORDS : Stories
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New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 1998. 1st Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW copy. A collection of twelve short stories unifed by place and time ... the place, the frozen border between northeastern China and Russia; the time, early 1970s when the two powers were poised for war. The protagonists are the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ocean of Words: Army Stories
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Massachusetts: Zoland Books, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Good. First Printing. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. He won the National Book Award for the novel WAITING. There is a crease to the middle of the front cover that has been reinforced with tape. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.
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Ocean of Words
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Cambridge: Zoland, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition thus. First Hard back edition of 1996 PBO. Author has won National Book Award, Flannery O'Connor Award & Pen/Faulkner. This book won the Pen/Hemingway. NEW BOOK. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover.. Item Price
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OCEAN OF WORDS: Army Stories.
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Ocean of Words
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Ocean of Words (Inscribed 1st edition)
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Jin's first book of prose, a paperback original collection of short stories, was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for fiction. Fine in pictorial wraps, briefly, and contemporaneously INSCRIBED by Jin on the half-title page. Item Price
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Ocean of Words: Stories
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Ocean of Words
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NY: Vintage. VG PB. (1996). 3rd ptg. On the chilly border between Russian & China, early 1970s, when two giants are poised on the brink of war Chinese soldiers must . constantly scrutinize the enemy for signs of bourgeois liberalism. . Item Price
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