The Sand Pebbles Soundtrack

The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and in January 1963 it was published by Harper & Row. In 1966 it was used as the storyline for a movie of the same name starring Steve McQueen.