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Interviews | June 19, 2009

Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text



jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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A Single Pebble

by John Hersey

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ISBN13: 9780394756974
ISBN10: 0394756975
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze — until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax.

Review:

"In a deceptively simple story, Hersey has captured all the magic, the terror and the drama of that extraordinary stretch of water....Even in Mr. Hersey's hands, the American's discoveries of his own mind and of the Chinese people are dwarfed by the laws, the demands and the ageless vitality of the Yangtze."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"A rewarding novel; it is clearly thought and beautifully projected on the screen of the imagination." — Atlantic

Product Details

ISBN:
9780394756974
Author:
Hersey, John
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
no. 1
Publication Date:
February 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
7.98x5.22x.56 in. .48 lbs.

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