Ebook {Epub PDF} The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven months and was made into a popular motion picture that c Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!/5.  · McKenna is best-known as the author of the novel The Sand Pebbles, which inspired the Steve McQueen film of the same name. Watch the movie if . The Sand Pebbles. By Richard McKenna Why this book? An old army buddy of mine used to say that when he had trouble at work and was worried about being able to support his family and when life was beginning to be a little too much, he would pick up a copy of The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna. Soon, he’d be transported to the deck of the USS.

Wonder if you could put this on your Sand Pebbles Site: I have just finished with the first phase of researching Richard McKenna's life. Would like to point out to anyone interested in the author of The Sand Pebbles the marvelous research material available at the library of the Richard McKenna Charter High School in Mountain Home, Idaho. The Sand Pebbles: Author: McKenna, Richard (4 of 4 for author by title) Richard McKenna () was an American author. He spent most his career in the U.S. Navy. He left the navy in and shortly after began publishing science fiction short stories. His stories mixed sci-fi themes of space flight and time travel with psychology and. During this time he heard many firsthand accounts of the Chinese Revolution which he put to use in The Sand Pebbles. Mr. McKenna, a machinist's mate RICHARD MCKENNA was born and raised in the small desert town of Mountain Home, Idaho.

'The Sand Pebbles' is an historical fiction which portrays events and characters in China's uprising. I think Richard McKenna gives a very FAIR look at history and I cannot see McKenna’s account of these events as revisionist in ANY way whatsoever. McKenna pretty much called it like it was; he was, after all, in ’s China. Richard McKenna was born in Idaho in He joined the US Navy in to help support his mother and younger brothers and spent over twenty years in the navy, serving for a while in China on a gunboat that patrolled the Yangtze River. He drew on his personal experiences for this book, The Sand Pebbles. After retiring from service, McKenna attended the University of North Carolina on the G.I. Bill and, after settling in Chapel Hill, he began publishing science fiction stories but it wasn't. The Sand Pebbles is a novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in It was the winner of the Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and in January it was published by Harper Row.