2012高考英语二轮专题精品：阅读理解（29）.doc

2012高考英语二轮专题精品:阅读理解(29)
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●Ms Tan, you’ ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.
That’s because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started pleted this one.
●Why do you think you had so many false starts?
I would say that my reasons were wrong: I was trying to prove that I wasn’t just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn’ t just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could e up with other, better reasons for continuing them.
●What kept you going on this book?
This book was different because it was based on my mother’ s real life. The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn’ t any of the mothers in that book. And at one point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story.” And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also told me many, many stories,because my mother doesn’ t generalize. The book really grew out of that.
●Have you ever visited China?
Yes. I’ ve been there twice: about three years ago and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.
●Was it difficult to capture the Chinese-American dialect without sounding like a pa