HOUSTON, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment.
First Edition of Farewell to Manzanar; Signed by Both Authors
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.
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First edition of this classic work, a powerful true story of life in a Japanese American incarceration camp. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both authors on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Letter with envelope from a person who lived in a Japanese internment camp to the previous owner of the book, Mr. Joe Cannon tipped into the front free endpaper.
In Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was and the experiences of her family. She relays the mundane and remarkable details of daily life during an extraordinary period of American history: The wartime imprisonment of civilians, most native-born Americans, in their own country, without trial, and by their fellow Americans. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment, as well as the dignity and resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar. Farewell to Manzanar has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Named one of the twentieth century’s 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies by the San Francisco Chronicle. It was adapted to film in 1976 starring Nobu McCarthy, who portrayed both Houston as well as her mother in the film.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment.
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