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003			OCoLC
005			20190609233617.0
008			150704t20162016nyu d 000 f eng d
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020			_a9780062411914
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092			_aThornton _bJ. R.
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aThornton, J. R. _q(John Randolph), _eauthor. _9301758
245	1	0	_aBeautiful country / _cJ. R. Thornton.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a308 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction. _924361
650		0	_aHigh school juniors _vFiction. _9301759
650		0	_aTennis players _vFiction. _996220
650		0	_aCulture conflict _vFiction. _9103534
651		0	_aBeijing (China) _vFiction. _9156692
655		0	_aYoung adult fiction. _91728
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