J. R. Thornton Beautiful Country (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beautiful CountryCondition: NewEAN: 9780062411914ISBN: 9780062411914Publisher: HarperPerennialFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/19/2016Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 227gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A NovelISBN-10: 0062411918Description: 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. It is a world in which gifted children are selected at the ages of six or seven for specialized sport schools where they devote their entire youth to the pursuit of athletic excellence and are paid as professionals by the state. Athletes find themselves compelled to do anything possible to succeed-right or wrong. Those who fail to reach the pinnacle are cast aside and are left facing a desperate future without hope. In China, Chase gains access to a culture rarely open to Westerners, and soon finds himself caught up in secrets.When his closest friend and teammate turns to him for help, Chase is faced with the dilemma of what to do when friendship, rules, and morals are in conflict. A big-hearted debut, Beautiful Country explores a friendship against the backdrop of a quickly changing country.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: FictionAuthor: J. R. ThorntonRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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