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Beautiful Country: A Novel
J. R. Thornton
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Description for Beautiful Country: A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing's Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older brother. He discovers a country in transition; a society in which the dual systems of Communist Era state control and an emerging entrepreneurial culture exist in paradox. A top ranked junior tennis player in the U.S., Chase joins the practices of the Beijing National Junior Tennis Team and is immersed in ... Read more
A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing's Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older brother. He discovers a country in transition; a society in which the dual systems of Communist Era state control and an emerging entrepreneurial culture exist in paradox. A top ranked junior tennis player in the U.S., Chase joins the practices of the Beijing National Junior Tennis Team and is immersed in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
231g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062411914
SKU
V9780062411914
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99-15
About J. R. Thornton
J. R. Thornton graduated from Harvard in 2014 where he studied history, English and Chinese. An internationally ranked junior tennis player, he later competed for the Harvard men's team and on the professional circuit. As a teenager he lived in Beijing and will return to China in the fall of 2016 as a member of the inaugural class of Schwarzman ... Read more
Reviews for Beautiful Country: A Novel
Simple but wonderful...authentic, pure and heartbreaking... (Thornton) is an exceptionally gifted young writer.
Mo Yan, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature This unsettling book about the moral encounter between America and China is a study of privilege, innocence, and risk. It is a tragedy of manners and a portrait of Beijing
amplified and torqued and unmistakable. ... Read more
Mo Yan, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature This unsettling book about the moral encounter between America and China is a study of privilege, innocence, and risk. It is a tragedy of manners and a portrait of Beijing
amplified and torqued and unmistakable. ... Read more