Heads By Harry: A Hawaiian Coming-of-Age Story of Family Business, Gender Roles, and Finding Identity
Set around a family taxidermy shop in Hilo, Hawaii, this novel sharply and humorously follows siblings, parents, and neighbors as family tensions and local community life collide.
Work Information
Above the family shop, everyone is trying to find a place of their own.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka builds a vivid family novel around a taxidermy shop in Hilo. The book leans on lively dialogue and the texture of local life to capture both friction and affection inside the household.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2000-03-07
- Pages
- 320 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.34 x 1.85 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780380733163
- ISBN-10
- 0380733161
- Price
- 2736 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles: a flamboyant older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, a stubborn father who refuses to accept her into the family business, and the Santos brothers--two pig-hunting, ex-high school football players who don't know what to think of their headstrong, outspoken neighbor.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, and a young adult novel, Name Me Nobody. She is the winner of a 1998 Lannan Literary Award and the 1998 Asian American Literary Award, and lives in Honolulu with her husband and son.
Reviews
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I read many books back in my high school english class including this one, out of all the books I couldn't stop thinking about Heads by Harry. Being a Hilo girl myself, I loved how she talked about all the different wahipana Toni adventured on with the 'ohana, especially Harry O. I finished this book less than 24hrs! Fastest I've ever read a book! haha
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Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a gifted and compelliing writer. I have all her novels in my permanent collection (and it is tough to make the cut and land on the Keeper shelves).
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Good condition, thanks!
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thanks