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020    $a 0062688197
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100 1  $a Tan, Amy.
245 1  $a Where the past begins $h [Large Print] : $b a writer's memoir / $c Amy Tan.
250    $a First HarperLuxe edition.
264  1 $a New York, NY :  $b HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,  $c [2017]
300    $a xi, 557 pages (large print) : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm.
505    $a Prologue. The breaker of combs -- I. Imagination -- A leaky imagination -- Music as muse -- Souvenir from a dream -- Hidden genius -- Reorientation: Homer, Alaska -- II. Memory in emotion -- Genuine emotions -- The feeling of what it felt like when it happened -- A mere mortal at age twenty-five -- A mere mortal at age twenty-six -- How to change fate: step 1 -- III. Retrieving the past -- The unfurling of leaves -- The auntie of the woman who lost her mind -- Unstoppable -- Time and distance: age twenty-four -- Time and distance: age fifty -- Time and distance: age sixty -- IV. Unknown endings -- The darkest moment of my life -- Nipping dog -- The father I did not know -- Reliable witness -- V. Reading and writing -- I am the author of this novel -- How I learned to read -- Splayed poem: the road -- Eidolons -- Letters to the editor -- Letters in English -- Why write? -- VI. Language -- Language: a love story -- Intestinal fortitude -- Principles of linguistics -- Companions in the house.
520    $a "In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older."-- $c Amazon.com.
541    $d 20171213.
600 1  $a Tan, Amy.
648  7 $a 1900-1999.
650  7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
650    $a Biography.
650  7 $a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing.
650  7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
650    $a Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650    $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $v Biography.
650    $a Novelists, American.
655  7 $a Autobiographies.
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