My last read, A Single Pebble (John Hersey), was a thoroughly pleasant surprise. It was a little vintage book I plucked from the dollar rack at Housing Works Bookstore. I'm a sucker for old books and this one was beautiful inside and out - easily worth the price.I hadn't heard of Hersey, but his written voice felt right from page one. Do yourself a favor and read him before you read about him.
The story here is about a you
ng engineer who travels to China to survey the Yangtze River for the building of a Dam. The young man's observations of a foreign people and landscape are simple, yet thorough and subtly complex. In short this is a beautiful and thought provoking little book.Loosely related side note: there is an interesting Stuff You Should Know podcast about earthquakes caused by Dams [the loose connection is the mention of a Dam on the Yangtze River].
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