{"product_id":"the-hanging-on-union-square-9780143134022","title":"The Hanging on Union Square","description":"\u003cb\u003eA subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight. Over the course of a single night, in a narrative that unfolds hour by hour, he meets a cast of strange characters--disgruntled workers at a Communist cafeteria, lecherous old men, sexually exploited women, pesky authors--who eventually convince him to cast off his bourgeois aspirations for upward mobility and become a radical activist. Absurdist, inventive, and suffused with revolutionary fervor, and culminating in a dramatic face-off against capitalist power in the figure of the greedy businessman Mr. System, \u003ci\u003eThe Hanging on Union Square\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of blazing wit and originality. More than eighty years after it was self-published, having been rejected by dozens of baffled publishers, it has become a classic of Asian American literature--a satirical send-up of class politics and capitalism and a shout of populist rage that still resonates today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerica Is in the Heart \u003c\/i\u003eby Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEast Goes West \u003c\/i\u003eby Younghill Kang (9780143134305)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Hanging on Union Square \u003c\/i\u003eby H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3161708\"\u003eH. T. Tsiang\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143134022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143134027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC054000\"\u003eAsian American\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC051000\"\u003eCultural Heritage\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. T. Tsiang\u003c\/b\u003e (1899-1971) was born in China and emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-seven. He studied at Stanford and Columbia, and while living in New York he wrote poetry and op-eds, acted in local theater productions, and washed dishes in a Greenwich Village nightclub. Faced with countless rejections from publishers, he self-published three novels, hawking them at downtown political meetings. He also appeared as an actor in Hollywood, most notably in the film \u003ci\u003eTokyo Rose, \u003c\/i\u003e and in 1943 he staged a theatrical adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Hanging on Union Square\u003c\/i\u003e in Los Angeles that counted Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory Peck, Orson Welles, and Rita Hayworth among its audience members during its five-year run. He died in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFloyd Cheung\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, afterword, notes) is a professor of English and American studies at Smith College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHua Hsu\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e an associate professor of English at Vassar College, and the author of \u003ci\u003eA Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688473563373,"sku":"9780143134022","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_298e9cff-4f30-4b6f-b9a6-3df01feb782a.jpg?v=1649788176","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-hanging-on-union-square-9780143134022","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}