This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven months and was made into a popular motion picture that c Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!/5. · Richard McKenna was born in Idaho in He joined the US Navy in to help support his mother and younger brothers and spent over twenty years in the navy, serving for a while in China on a gunboat that patrolled the Yangtze River. He drew on his personal experiences for this book, The Sand Pebbles. After retiring from service, McKenna attended the University of North Carolina on Brand: RosettaBooks. But how many Idahoans know that The Sand Pebbles was written by a man who was born and reared in little Mountain Home, Idaho? Richard McKenna is often forgotten because he didn’t begin writing professionally until his 40s, after spending many years in the Navy, only to have a deadly heart attack strike him in , while he was working on his second novel. He was only 51 years old.
—The Sand Pebbles Very likely no novel ever has devoted more prose to a ship's engines than does The Sand Pebbles. Richard McKenna's descriptions of the naval river gunboat San Pablo and its engine room recall Melville's extensive detailing of the Pequod. ― Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. 0 likes. Like "He was thinking it must be tough to be a woman. They were all needs and wants and wishes and the only real trade they had was going to bed." ― Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. tags: women. 0 likes. During this time he heard many firsthand accounts of the Chinese Revolution which he put to use in The Sand Pebbles. Mr. McKenna, a machinist's mate RICHARD MCKENNA was born and raised in the small desert town of Mountain Home, Idaho.
Richard McKenna was born in Idaho in He joined the US Navy in to help support his mother and younger brothers and spent over twenty years in the navy, serving for a while in China on a gunboat that patrolled the Yangtze River. He drew on his personal experiences for this book, The Sand Pebbles. After retiring from service, McKenna attended the University of North Carolina on the G.I. Bill and, after settling in Chapel Hill, he began publishing science fiction stories but it wasn't. 'The Sand Pebbles' is an historical fiction which portrays events and characters in China's uprising. I think Richard McKenna gives a very FAIR look at history and I cannot see McKenna’s account of these events as revisionist in ANY way whatsoever. McKenna pretty much called it like it was; he was, after all, in ’s China. The Sand Pebbles is a novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in It was the winner of the Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and in January it was published by Harper Row.
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