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White Lotus, John Hersey, 1965, First Edition Knopf,

Description: THAT DAY when it all began I was working with other young girls at our village pottery shea. I was near the wheel of Mrs. Kathryn Blaw, the senior potter, who was also storyteller at our village library. Narrow parrot-nosed face, hair drawn back in a bun, simple brown clay-spattered work smock—she was in the shade of the tin roof of the wheel shop, but the brilliant light of a reflected Arizona afternoon flooded her, filling every wrinkle of her dry white skin with a juvenating liquid glow; the wheel shop was only a roofed shed without walls. Mrs. Blaw was building up from a lump of tempered clay the sides of a large graceful urn of the sort our village sold, mostly to California merchants, for the storage of grain and fruit. As she worked on the earthen shell at the low wheel, her shoulders curving and her breasts pendent within the smock, the swift flapping, paying, and wilting of her sharp hands expressed without doubt her ferocity, her edgy temperament, the wild spirit that took hold of her when she wound into a tale; she terrified my friend Agatha, and me, and all of us who had lately been children. She shouted for a new batch of worked clay. The women at the kneading troughs started up like partridges surprised in a thicket of greasewood, and their sudden flurry stirred a fuss among the chickens, sheep, and goats that wandered ORDER BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL - SAME DAY SHIPPINGEB2421

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Publication Year: 1965

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: White Lotus

Special Attributes: 1st Edition

Author: John R. Hersey

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Original Language: English

Topic: General

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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