Beautiful country : a novel
Thornton, J. R.2016
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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 the brutal, cut-throat world of Chinese sport.
Main title:
Beautiful country : a novel / J.R. Thornton.
Author:
Thornton, J. R., author
Imprint:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2016.
Collation:
320 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780062411914 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3620
Language:
English
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BRN:
1583533
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