Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street

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Random House Publishing Group, 1985 - Fiction - 848 pages
Sun I, the illegitimate son of an American aviator and a Chinese beauty, leaves his remote Taoist monastery to find his father on Wall Street and is caught up in the way to wealth and power of the other Tao.

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David Payne is the author of three previous novels: Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, which won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award; Early from the Dance; and Ruin Creek. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now lives in Wells, Vermont.

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