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Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
...Kingston's prose imitates--almost mocks--an era and its writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier works, the Mexican-Americans of California fame, the mainstream Americans of boring jobs and boring attitudes, the blond-haired beauties and the bearded draft dodgers--all types pass through Kingston's city...
...Maxine Hong Kingston...
...twice defending champs," Harvard Coach Martyn Kingston said," and we don't intend on giving up the championship, especially here at Soldiers Field...
...This is our second-most successful season ever," said Kingston, whose 1984 squad captured the national championship. "We still have a fairly young squad, and we've been using a squad of about 25 during the weekends...