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An edition of The middle kingdom (1991)

The middle kingdom

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For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett's third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay; she's to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at the 1986 Beijing International Conference on the Effects of Acid Rain. Walter is twelve years older than Grace, and as sour as the rain he studies; he and Grace are at a particularly trouble point in their marriage. Their tightly circumscribed visit, however, becomes a journey infinitely less tidy and more complex as Grace falls forever out of love with her husband and very much in love with this country and its culture. In the chaos of the Beijing streets and in the home of her new friends Dr. Yr and her son Zaofan, Grace finds the web of life she's been too lost to perceive. "Time you spend in the past and future is the time you spend alone. " Dr. Yu tells her, " But between them there is a middle kingdom, both feet planted here."

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Language
English
Pages
279

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Cover of: The Middle Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
2001, Flamingo
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Cover of: The Middle Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
2001, Flamingo
Cover of: The middle kingdom
The middle kingdom
1991, Pocket Books
in English
Cover of: The middle kingdom
The middle kingdom
1991, Washington Square Press
in English

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First Sentence

"All of Beijing was blanketed with smoke and rumors."

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.A7327 M5 1991b

The Physical Object

Pagination
279 p. ;
Number of pages
279

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1555056M
Internet Archive
middlekingdom00barrrich
ISBN 10
0671729616
LCCN
91035221
Library Thing
223174
Goodreads
95737

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