{"product_id":"beauty-plus-pity-paperback","title":"Beauty Plus Pity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Chong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.\"--Vladimir Nabokov \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this tragicomic modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modelling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two near-simultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed?the result of his father's extramarital affair?and as their tentative relationship grows, Malcolm is forced to confront his past relationships with women, including his own mother, an art teacher working through her grief as well as her resentment at her son befriending her husband's daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with a winsome yet plaintive eye, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Plus Pity\u003c\/i\u003e is about a young man who's forced to reckon with the past as he works through his lifelong ambivalence toward his hyphenated cultural identity, and between two parents holding intolerable secrets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBaroque-a-Nova\u003c\/i\u003e (Plume) and the memoir \u003ci\u003eNeil Young Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (Greystone Books).\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Chong: Kevin Chong was born in Hong Kong in 1975 and raised in Vancouver. He is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eBaroque-a-Nova\u003c\/i\u003e (Plume, 2002), a music memoir entitled \u003ci\u003eNeil Young Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (Greystone\/PGW, 2005), and a forthcoming memoir on horse-racing. He lives in Vancouver. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695670399039,"sku":"9781551524160","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2b2e52a1a0eacb8ba831a465860bdaed.webp?v=1765004653","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/beauty-plus-pity-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}