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  • Published: 11 February 1989
  • ISBN: 9780394756974
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $36.00

A Single Pebble




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.

  • Published: 11 February 1989
  • ISBN: 9780394756974
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

John Hersey

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914, and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Clare College, Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis's secretary, and then worked for several years as a journalist. He published seventeen works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Bell for Adano. Besides Hiroshima which was first published in 1946, he wrote six books of essays and reportage. He died in 1993.

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