The World Is My Home: A Memoir - Rilegato

Michener, James A.

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ISBN 10: 0679401342 ISBN 13: 9780679401346

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1992

Riassunto

The author describes his childhood in a foster home, his service in the navy during World War II, the beginning of his writing career, and his travels

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L'autore:

Universally revered novelist James A. Michener was forty before he decided on writing as a career. Prior to that, he had been an outstanding academic, an editor, and a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis of the award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. In the course of the next forty years Mr. Michener wrote such monumental bestsellers as Sayonara, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Hawaii, The Source, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Alaska, Caribbean, and Mexico.

Decorated with America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Michener served on the Advisory Council to NASA, held honorary doctorates in five fields from thirty leading universities, and received a

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ER was "a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, energetic, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart."*  Now, one of America's most beloved novelists gives us the story of his own remarkable life . . . .
(*The New York Times Book Review)
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679401342
• ISBN 13: 9780679401346
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1