Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
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(Mass Market Paperback - REISSUE)
- Pub. Date: May 1993
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 21,238
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- ISBN-13: 9780449206522
- ISBN: 0449206521
- Edition Description: REISSUE
Synopsis
"Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.
David Dempsey
" Tales of the South Pacific " is truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war in a long time...[James Michener] has captured the phase of the war that most GIs in the Pacific will want to remember - the flaming sunsets, the quiet pellucid lagoons of some of some forgotten atoll, jungles that breathed mystery as well as malaria.-- Books of the Century; New York Times review, February 1947
Biography
Part travelogue, part history, part fictional adventure, James Michener's heavily researched books edify as they entertain. He began his career with the book that would become the musical South Pacific, but he ended it as one of the century's most popular -- and prolific -- novelists.
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Excellent Read!by Betsy96
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September 12, 2009: I read this book as part of a book club selection. My dad had been a Seabee in the South Pacific during WWII and I had listened to many stories about his service on the same Islands Michener wrote about. As I read the book, I was thrilled to hear about the same places my dad had been. The tales prompted me to pull out a box of my dad's old pics (my dad's been gone since 1991). I found all kinds of interesting pictures of my dad on the Islands that Michener describes so well. (My dad's writings on the back of the pictures talk about life on "the rock" and actually included stamps of the navy "censor" that Michener included in his story!) The book was a joy to read, even if it didn't bring back wonderful thoughts of my dad! I wish I had read the book while may dad was alive, so I could have shared it with him! I loved Michener's style and found myself laughing out loud at many of his stories. It made me view my dad, my husband (Vietnam) and my son (Iraq) from a different perspective. Michener truly knew his subject matter! GREAT, GREAT book! I would never have read this book, if the book club had not selected it! I am thankful for our book club.
not just historical fiction!!!!by Anonymous
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June 15, 2004: this is the first michener book i read and i LOOOOOVED it!!!! it's historically accurate which is nice but there's also romance and action and other fun stuff. read this for your english or history class b/c it's a 'great novel' but also a way cool story!! p.s. not just an adult book--i'm a teenager and i liked it!!
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