Coming Home Crazy
An Alphabet of China Essays
by Bill Holm
A captivating journey through contemporary China. With Holm as
companion, one learns what it is like to travel by "hard-seat" train to
a remote village, to smuggle Chinese classics back into China, and to
experience Mickey Mouse-mania in the Middle Kingdom.
Bill Holm
Author's Bio:Bill
Holm was born to Icelandic immigrants on a farm north of Minneota,
Minnesota in 1943. A long-time resident of Minneota, Holm lived with
his wife Marcie and taught at Southwest Minnesota State University in
Marshall from 1980 until he retired in 2007. He traveled widely, to
Iceland on a Fulbright in 1979, and more recently to his summer home in
Hofsos; and to China, where he taught on an academic exchange program
in 1986 and again in 1992. The recipient of the 2008 McKnight
Distinguished Artist Award, Holm is the author of several books of
essays and poetry including, most recently, The Windows of Brimnes. Known both regionally and nationally as a humorist, writer, and prairie radical, Bill Holm passed away on February 26, 2009.
Quotes:"[A] fantastic expedition into the whims, absurdities, smells,
tastes and wonders of modern Chinese life. . . . Holm provides a warm,
wise and unrelentingly witty guide to surviving China."—San Diego
Magazine
"Entertaining, thought-provoking and touching. After
reading his book, you won't look at the United States or China the same
way."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"I love it. It is the best book on China I have read for a long time."—Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai
"The
warmth, courage and enduring spirit of the Chinese people permeate the
pages of Coming Home Crazy."—Charleston News and Courier/Evening Post
"Holm provides a warm, wise and unrelentingly witty guide to surviving China.”—San Diego Magazine
Teachers' Comments:
"Holm’s sensitive, humorous, irreverent and perceptive view of
Chinese life and his equally critical, irreverent and sharp perception
of American culture in light of his Chinese experience suits my course
well."—Po-shek Fu, Colgate University, New York
"Clear vibrant writing or personal reflection on experience in a society whose culture is so very different from America."—Melvyn Hammarberg, University of Pennsylvania
"My students seemed to have learned more about themselves and their
culture even though the subject of the book is about China."—Xian Liu, Drury College, Missouri
"Accessible to my students, while showing them what really good writing is."—Marjory Kinney, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
"It shows the students that anything (a Swiss army knife) is material
for writing. . . . It’s rich. It excites students. It’s local. It shows
them themselves from another perspective."—Beth Weatherby, Southwest State University, Minnesota |
Price:
$ 16.00
Binding: Paper
Availability In Stock: 225
immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2000
Size: 6 x 9
Edition: 2nd
Genre: Nonfiction/Nonfiction/Nonfiction
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781571312501
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