River Town Two Years on the Yangtze

Name: River Town Two Years on the Yangtze
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ISBN: 9780060855024

ISBN-10: 0060855029

ISBN-13: 9780060855024

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Authors: Peter Hessler

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A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Peter Hessler is a correspondent for the New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic. He is the author of ORACLE BONES and RIVER TOWN, which won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. In 2011 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'. Born in Columbia, Missouri, he now lives in Cairo with his wife and daughters.




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