The Drifters [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Michener, James A.

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ISBN 10: 0449213536 ISBN 13: 9780449213537

Casa editrice: Fawcett Books, 1986

Riassunto

Eight wanderers, spanning three generations, find themselves thrown together in the Spanish resort town Torremolinos.

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Recensione:

“A blockbuster of a book . . . full of surprise, drama, and fascination.”—Philadelphia Bulletin
 
“Rings with authentic detail and clearly descriptive sights and smells . . . The Drifters is to the generation gap what The Source was to Israel.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“[The Drifters] conveys a sense of a new time, a new generation.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 
“Michener has slid open a window on the world of the dropout and has spared no effort to make the reader aware of this new world.”—The Salt Lake Tribune

L'autore:

James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winningTales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean,and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

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• Editore: Fawcett Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0449213536
• ISBN 13: 9780449213537
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768