Country Driving and A Special Providence
7 December 2009
My copy of Country Driving is a proof from work. It’s the story of (as the marketing copy on the back notes) Peter Hessler’s look at China and its progress (and change) via its roads — he got his Chinese driver’s licence in 2001 and spent quite a bit of time on the road.
Clearly I have some vested or specific interest in the topic. I really appreciate someone who had the balls to do it. It’s always great to get the view from someone who has really made an effort to get to know China rather than some business person who’s spent a few weeks there and thinks they know it all.
The other book I’ve started is another Richard Yates, titled A Special Providence. At the moment I’m reading about Robert Prentice’s service in the Army. As with the other two novels I’ve read, I’m really drawn into the plot and I may have to start a personal Yates library rather than borrowing copies from the Edinburgh library.
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