Seeing Calvin Coolidge in Dream

Name: Seeing Calvin Coolidge in Dream
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ISBN: 9780312156497

ISBN-10: 0312156499

ISBN-13: 9780312156497

Edition: Revised

Authors: John Derbyshire

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This is a magical novel of a Chinese immigrant's coming to terms with himself, his marriage, and America--and the unlikely moral force that guides his life. Chai is middle-aged, a disillusioned formed Red Guard who escaped China for Hong Kong and then America, where he works in New York as a banker. He and his wife, Ding, are the parents of an infant and enjoy a contented marriage; he develops a fond obsession with President Calvin Coolidge, the taciturn New Englander whose wry wit and wisdom delights Chai. One day, a chance discovery leads him astray: He learns that a lover from his youth is now in Boston, living with her husband and their son. The son is Chai's very image, and the staid…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

JOHN DERBYSHIREis a mathematician and linguist by education, a systems analyist by profession, and the celebrated author of Prime Obsession, a mathematical biography of Bernhard Riemann, and the highly acclaimed novel Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream. His work appears frequently in National Reviewand The New Criterion.