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Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream Book

John Derbyshire took an interesting risk with this first-person novel written in the voice of Chai, a former Red Guard from Northeastern China who fled his strife-ridden country by swimming to Hong Kong, eventually making his way to the United States. Happily married and living in Long Island, he has developed an obsession for Calvin Coolidge, whose low-key, laissez-faire approach to government makes him sound to Chai like the ideal Confucian leader. Through Chai, Derbyshire offers insights on the difference between China, where citizens are crushed by the weight of a long and enduring history, and the United States, where a relative lack of history gives its citizens the opportunity to endlessly remake themselves. All this is wrapped in a plot that has Chai flirting dangerously with thoughts of reviving a long-lost relationship with a woman from his past.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Social satire, human drama, of guilt, loss and getting over it all. Post Chinese cultural revolution- life in New York City for Asian immigrants.

  • 0312140444
  • 9780312140441
  • John Derbyshire
  • 1 February 1996
  • Saint Martin's Press Inc.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 273
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