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...promotion to a bigger town in his coastal province, Fujian. The county's top position was a reward to the 52-year-old cadre for exposing corruption and braving death threats in a nearby city, and now he expected a quieter time. "I really did not want to be drawn into that kind of case again," he wrote in August...
...stop at Bryce Canyon, Utah, decides to clamber down the rock face rather than follow the "hippies" down the trail, to predictably disastrous results. In another a man cruises a fellow traveler for a quickie inside an Egyptian temple. But, lacking in detail or development, and drawn with a minimum of detail, the stories will be forgotten as quickly as you turn the page...
...next book," tries to disarm any critics, but he needn't have worried. Seemingly unedited, "Carnet" chronicles, in the form of an engrossing diary sketchbook, Thompson's European author tour, with a side trip to Morocco, during the spring of 2004. With all of its pages drawn from life, here at last we have one continuous journey, rich with detail of place and characters, told with humor, pathos and insight...
Peter Lee, the owner of the Yenching restaurant—which is drawn on a page of the book opposite the words “or sushi or moo shi or chicken stir-fry?”—said yesterday that he had not heard about the book...
...employee at The Harvard Bookstore, which is also drawn next to the words “see jumbles and heaps...” said that the store had already sold 130 copies of the book...