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No-no Boy

No-no Boy

by JohnOkada (Author)

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    Paperback 1978

    $7.24
Synopsis

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 260
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Jun 1978
ISBN 10: 0295955252
ISBN 13: 9780295955254
Book Overview: John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and was dead of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.

Media Reviews
Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature. -Gordon Hirabayashi, Pacific Affairs Nisei will recognize the authenticity of the idioms Okada's characters use, as well as his descriptions of the familiar Issei and Nisei mannerisms that make them come alive. -Bill Hosokawa, Pacific Citizen
Author Bio

John Okada was born in Seattle in 1923. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, attended the University of Washington and Columbia University, and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. No-No Boy is his only published novel.