Synopses & Reviews
A report on key issues and options relating to the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in China. The objectives of the study were to examine the projected market for gas and to review the mechanisms and structures necessary to support the introduction of gas.
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"Ten years after its publication, I played sick for two days so I could stay home from school to finish reading Raintree County . . . [T]he powerful currents and depth of this great swollen river of a book remain irresistible. Raintree County doesn't have to be the great American novel to be an American classic and a classic expression of the American dream; a time and place in our history are made permanent in this book...." Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
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"[A]t the end of the century, when lists were propounded identifying the great novels of the epoch.... It [Raintree County] was an egregious omission....The sheer ambition, to create a kind of Ulysses embodying America, embraces the reader at the beginning and doesn't let up. It has a Whitmanesque exuberance." Dick Cady, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Herald-Times, March 4, 2001
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"Scores of characters flit through its pages, characters that a Hogarth or a Bruegel might have assembled on canvas, characters that suggest both Whitmanian energies and Dickensian drolleries, and characters that have a fey poetic charm... .The sheer sparkle and dazzle of things holds and compels. Darshan Maini, The Tribune
Synopsis
The epic, great American novel about love, tragedy, and the American Dream. Told in a series of flashbacks, this is the story of John Wickliff Shawnessy, who grows up to be the epitome of Civil War-era America. Originally published in 1948.