HERSEY, John

HERSEY, John
(1914-1993)
   US novelist and journalist, perhaps best known for his early report, Hiroshima (1946). His White Lotus (1965) is an ALTERNATE-WORLDS story in which China conquers the USA and makes slaves of White Americans, including the teenager renamed White Lotus. The Child Buyer (1960) is a NEAR FUTURE story - told in the form of a courtroom drama - in whichcorporations bid for effective ownership of child prodigies. My Petition for More Space (1974) is a radically DYSTOPIAN rendering of an enormously regimented Earth bedevilled by OVERPOPULATION problems - the protagonist lives in a tiny cubicle and petitions, vainly, for an extra foot in each direction.
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  • Hersey, John (Richard) — (17 jun. 1914, Tianjin [Tientsin], China–24 mar. 1993, Key West, Fla., EE.UU.). Novelista y periodista estadounidense nacido en China. Hijo de misioneros, se desempeñó como corresponsal en Asia oriental, Italia y la Unión Soviética en 1937–46.… …   Enciclopedia Universal

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  • John Richard Hersey — John Hersey, aufgenommen von Carl van Vechten (1958) John Richard Hersey (* 17. Juni 1914 in Tientsin, China; † 24. März 1993 in Key West, Florida) war ein US amerikanischer …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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