| | BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 352 pgs / 3 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/1/2007 Out of print DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 36 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781885030450 TRADE List Price: $14.95 CAD $21.00 GBP £12.99 AVAILABILITY Not available | TERRITORY WORLD | | THE FALL 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG  | Preview our FALL 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
|
|   |   | This Is a BustBy Ed Lin.
This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow's troubles are compounded by the fact that he's basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he's the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer who can speak Cantonese, but he's never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events. Chow is willing to stuff down his feelings and hang tight for a promotion to the detective track, despite the community unrest that begins to roil around him. But when his superiors remain indifferent to an old Chinese woman's death, he is forced to take matters into his own hands. This Is a Bust is at once a murder mystery, a noir homage and a devastating, uniquely nuanced portrait of a neighborhood in flux, stuck between old rivalries and youthful idealism.
|
| | | | OF RELATED INTEREST |  | Kaya/MuaeISBN: 9781885030320 USD $12.95 | CAD $18.5 UK £ 10.99Pub Date: 5/2/2002 Active | In stock
|
|  | Kaya PressISBN: USD $0.00 | CAD $Pub Date: |
|
|
| FORTHCOMING AND NEW: FICTION AND POETRY |  | Wakefield PressISBN: 9781962728102 USD $14.95 | CAD $21 UK £ 11.99Pub Date: 10/14/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Image Text Ithaca PressISBN: 9781733497176 USD $35.00 | CAD $49 UK £ 28Pub Date: 9/30/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Mandylion PressISBN: 9798988606154 USD $27.00 | CAD $38 UK £ 22Pub Date: 10/28/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Mandylion PressISBN: 9798988606147 USD $27.00 | CAD $38 UK £ 22Pub Date: 10/28/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Mandylion PressISBN: 9798988606161 USD $27.00 | CAD $38 UK £ 22Pub Date: 10/28/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Kaya PressISBN: 9781885030849 USD $18.95 | CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99Pub Date: 11/11/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Kaya PressISBN: 9781885030856 USD $18.95 | CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99Pub Date: 11/11/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Kaya PressISBN: 9781935717102 USD $19.95 | CAD $27.95 UK £ 14.99Pub Date: 9/2/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Set Margins’ publicationsISBN: 9789083499345 USD $22.00 | CAD $31Pub Date: 8/26/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | The Song CaveISBN: 9798991298889 USD $18.95 | CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99Pub Date: 10/7/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Wakefield PressISBN: 9781962728072 USD $19.95 | CAD $27.95 UK £ 14.99Pub Date: 9/9/2025 Forthcoming
|
|  | Wakefield PressISBN: 9781962728096 USD $16.95 | CAD $23.95 UK £ 13.99Pub Date: 11/7/2025 Forthcoming
|
|
|
| |
| |

|
FORMAT: Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 352 pgs / 3 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $14.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $21 GBP £12.99 ISBN: 9781885030450 PUBLISHER: Kaya Press AVAILABLE: 11/1/2007 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD | D.A.P. CATALOG: FALL 2007 Page 36 | PRESS INQUIRIES
Tel: (212) 627-1999 ext 217 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Email Press Inquiries: publicity@dapinc.com | TRADE RESALE ORDERS
D.A.P. | DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS Tel: (212) 627-1999 Fax: (212) 627-9484 Customer Service: (800) 338-2665 Email Trade Sales: orders@dapinc.com |
| This Is a Bust Published by Kaya Press. By Ed Lin. This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow's troubles are compounded by the fact that he's basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he's the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer who can speak Cantonese, but he's never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events. Chow is willing to stuff down his feelings and hang tight for a promotion to the detective track, despite the community unrest that begins to roil around him. But when his superiors remain indifferent to an old Chinese woman's death, he is forced to take matters into his own hands. This Is a Bust is at once a murder mystery, a noir homage and a devastating, uniquely nuanced portrait of a neighborhood in flux, stuck between old rivalries and youthful idealism.
| VIEW MORE ONLINE AT: https://www.artbook.com/1885030452.html |
| | |
|