Word: mckenna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (2, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 3. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (3) 4. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, Salinger 5. $100 Misunderstanding, Gover (5) 6. A Shade of Difference, Drury (4) 7. Genius, Dennis (7) 8. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara (8) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. Ship of Fools, Porter...
...Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna. Writing his first novel at 49, an ex-Navy enlisted man tells how a ship's crew degenerates behind a façade of spit and polish, then finds itself again...
...Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
...SAND PEBBLES (597 pp.)-Richard McKenna-Harper...
Engines & Coolies. Chronicling the downfall of the Sand Pebbles, McKenna achieves a rare organic mixture of fast-moving story and far-ranging symbol. Holman proves to be a loner who hates the spit and polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons...