{"product_id":"honolulu-stories-voices-of-the-town-throught-the-years-two-centuries-of-writing-9781566478434","title":"Honolulu Stories: Voices of the Town Throught The Years: Two Centuries of Writing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonolulu Stories: Voices of the Town Throught The Years: Two Centuries of Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e by Daws, Gavan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781566478434.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHawaii has never seen a book like\nthis! Honolulu Stories runs over one\nthousand pages and features the work\nof over 270 authors, and over 350\nselections. It brings together two\nhundred years of writing and literary\nhistory about the town a rich feast of\nwords including short fiction, excerpts\nfrom novels, scenes from plays,\npoems, chants, song lyrics, cartoons,\nstand-up comedy, and the modern art\nof slam poetry.\nThe story of Honolulu comes alive;\nfrom its origins as a tiny village, to\nraucous whaling port and capital of\nthe Hawaiian Kingdom, to\nmulticultural metropolis flanked by\nWaikiki on one end and Pearl Harbor\nat the other. The myriad of authors\nfeatured run the gamut from the\nworld-famous, to locally beloved, to\nunknown. There are Hawaiian\nchanters whose names are forever lost,\nbut whose words live on. A roving\njournalist who called himself Mark\nTwain; a deserter from a whaling ship\nwho went to work on the waterfront in\n1843 Herman Melville; Rap\nReiplinger, the genius of Hawaiian\nstand-up comedy; Jack London, the\nfirst ever to include the sport of\nsurfing in short stories; Lois Ann\nYamanaka, who did the impossible\nand took pidgin English to a national\nlevel; Korean political exiles; a\nPortuguese poet in a mom-and-pop\nstore; school kids; a man in prison; a\nninety-year-old woman still\ncomposing tanka... The human range\nof the voices included is infinite and\nthe pleasures found within are endless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mutual Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212903931957,"sku":"ByrdShop_156647843X","price":226.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566478434_1a2bd875-e3de-425b-af6a-62137894a78a.jpg?v=1779908643","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/honolulu-stories-voices-of-the-town-throught-the-years-two-centuries-of-writing-9781566478434","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}