Peter Hessler





Peter Hessler

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Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.


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Average rating: 4.08 · 5,094 ratings · 1,006 reviews · 5 distinct works
River Town: Two Years on the Y...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,488 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Betwee...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Country Driving: A Journey Thr...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,029 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004
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February 2010, Peter Hessler
"Written during the Qing dynasty, this book is a quirky, evocative, and surprisingly intimate glimpse of the mind of a highly literate gentleman of the early 1800s...Shen Fu has such a love of life—his first chapter is entitled 'The Joys of the Wedding Chamber.'" ...More

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“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”
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