The Resource Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
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The item Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Label
- Digging to America
- Title
- Digging to America
- Statement of responsibility
- by Anne Tyler
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tyler, Anne
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.Y45
- LC item number
- D47 2006b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Friendship
- Intercountry adoption
- Iranian American women
- Iranian Americans
- Widows
- Women immigrants
- Baltimore (Md.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Lccn
- 2006007101
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780739326428
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- 64453437
- Label
- Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, (text large print)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First large print edition.
- Extent
- 405 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780739326428
- Lccn
- 2006007101
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780739326428
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- 64453437
Subject
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Intercountry adoption -- Fiction
- Iranian American women -- Fiction
- Iranian Americans -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Psychological fiction
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
Genre
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- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2006
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2006
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