The Resource The headmaster's wager : a novel, Vincent Lam, (electronic resource)
The headmaster's wager : a novel, Vincent Lam, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. He is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 sound file (15 hr., 48 min., 51 sec.)
- Note
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- Unabridged
- Duration: 15:48:51
- Isbn
- 9780449808306
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- Label
- The headmaster's wager : a novel
- Title
- The headmaster's wager
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Vincent Lam
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. He is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, and quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage, and Laing Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the Tet offensive. Percival's new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further and further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
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- Lam, Vincent
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
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- LC call number
- PR9199.4.L353
- LC item number
- H43 2012ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Feodor Chin
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- Chin, Feodor
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
- Transposition and arrangement
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- Label
- The headmaster's wager : a novel, Vincent Lam, (electronic resource)
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- Unabridged
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- Isbn
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- Sound
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- Special playback characteristics
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- Specific material designation
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- (OCoLC)811557482
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- Label
- The headmaster's wager : a novel, Vincent Lam, (electronic resource)
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- Note
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- Unabridged
- Duration: 15:48:51
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 sound file (15 hr., 48 min., 51 sec.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780449808306
- Isbn Type
- (electronic audio bk.)
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- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
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- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
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- Special playback characteristics
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- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)811557482
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