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About Amy Tan
American author
Amy Tan is an American author best known for her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. The book was later adapted into a film in 1993. Her work brought her wide recognition as a novelist. The available facts point chiefly to The Joy Luck Club and its screen adaptation, which made her name familiar to many readers and viewers.
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- “People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new thi…”Robert Black
- “Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.”Eva Hesse
- “You only get 15 minutes to work and show your art and everything can you do. At the end of the day, it's a fi…”Aljamain Sterling
Writing: more sayings
- “During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries.…”Susan Barker
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Books by Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife
1996
The Joy Luck Club
2003
The Bonesetter's Daughter
2002
The Hundred Secret Senses
1995
The valley of amazement
2013