A single pebble / John Hersey
1956, Fourth Edition. New York : Knopf, for Borzoi Books. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages; Description: 181p. ; 21cm. Subjects: American fiction -- Fiction set in China. Summary: 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. Item #173734
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