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      My Symptoms

      by John Yau
      Published
      Mar 1998
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      208
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      My Symptoms, a six-sectioned book of short stories, does much to showcase Chinese-American poet John Yau's formidable lyrical abilities. This statement is especially true of the second section, which, as Publishers Weekly says, is filled with "spare, sure, lyrical vignettes reminiscent of Lydia Davis's work." Alienation and isolation are two of the book's main preoccupations, but in it Yau plumbs all of the oftentimes-distressing aspects of the human condition. The Review of Contemporary Fiction remarked, "These are stories that recount the symptoms of many, if not most." Certainly, all readers are invited to read and perhaps empathize.

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      Mar 1998 Black Sparrow Press ISBN13 9781574230611 ISBN10 1574230611
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      Mar 1998 Black Sparrow Press ISBN13 9781574230628 ISBN10 157423062X
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      Jun 1998 Black Sparrow Press ISBN13 9781574230635 ISBN10 1574230638
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