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Wrack and Ruin

Don Lee

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Lyndon Song is a renowned sculptor who fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a brother, Woody, an indicted financier turned movie producer, and Woody has a plan involving a golf course on Lyndon s land and an aging kung-fu diva from Hong Kong with a mean kick and an even meaner drinking problem. Over one madcap Labor Day weekend, this plan wreaks havoc on Lyndon s bucolic and carefully managed life leading to various crises, adventures, and literature s first-ever windsurfing chase scene. A highly appealing novel that swerves ever so gracefully from rollicking humor to poignant moments of reflection (Booklist), this hilarious and philosophical novel about the landscape of contemporary multicultural America is Don Lee s best book yet."

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 0.80lb
  • EAN: 9780393334753
  • Categories: • Family Life - General• Humorous - General• Small Town & Rural

About the Author

Lee, Don: - Don Lee is the author of the novels The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University and splits his time between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Praise for this book

Wrack and Ruin is a spectacular romp, one of those rare novels whose goofiness is matched by its gravitas. Don Lee is a master of the tightly woven plot; this book is nearly impossible put down, though at times you may have to pause out of sheer hilarity.--Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
Wrack and Ruin is magnificent: bold, beautiful, heartfelt, witty, broad of scope, and yet as intimate as love given, or love received.--Junot Diaz
Playful and lighthearted, Wrack and Ruin has an accidental elegance that is un-self-conscious and refreshing.--Lisa Dierbeck "New York Times Book Review"
Entertaining...a darn good story.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
A modern day, multicultural, environmental, and existential farce...wildly colorful and articulate...an interesting and humorous cross-section of life in a small town with big personalities.--Erin Connor "Orion"
The author of Yellow (2001) and Country of Origin (2004) delivers another warmly humorous take on identity in this entertaining novel...a highly appealing novel that swerves ever so gracefully from rollicking humor to poignant moments of reflection.-- "Booklist"