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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James A. Michener , Steve BerryPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Dial Press Inc.,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 13.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 20.90cm Weight: 0.556kg ISBN: 9780812986723ISBN 10: 0812986725 Pages: 752 Publication Date: 05 May 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA 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 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 Author InformationJames 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–winning Tales 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |