'The Crazed'

NPR | By Alan Cheuse

Published December 2, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Alan Cheuse reviews The Crazed, by Ha Jin, a Chinese expatriate. The book is published by Pantheon.

Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.

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