The World Is My Home: A Memoir

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In this exceptional memoir, James A. Michener, one of the world's best-selling authors, tells the story only he can tell — the story of his life.
A small-town Pennsylvania boy, brought up in a foster home, who hitchhikes around the country beginning at age thirteen. A young man with a thirst for learning who educates himself m the arts. A naval officer during World War 11 who island-hops across the South Pacific on a set of papers forged by an officer friend and becomes the high command's official expert on scandals and shenanigans in the Pacific theater. A textbook editor who publishes his first book at age forty and wins a Pulitzer Prize. A best-selling author who feels at home anywhere in the world and is blessed with a singular gift for making the most exotic people and places come alive on the page.
lames A. Michener is all of these people, and in this vivid and unorthodox memoir he describes the people, events, and ideas that have shaped his life. Moving backward and... Tovább

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In this exceptional memoir, James A. Michener, one of the world's best-selling authors, tells the story only he can tell — the story of his life.
A small-town Pennsylvania boy, brought up in a foster home, who hitchhikes around the country beginning at age thirteen. A young man with a thirst for learning who educates himself m the arts. A naval officer during World War 11 who island-hops across the South Pacific on a set of papers forged by an officer friend and becomes the high command's official expert on scandals and shenanigans in the Pacific theater. A textbook editor who publishes his first book at age forty and wins a Pulitzer Prize. A best-selling author who feels at home anywhere in the world and is blessed with a singular gift for making the most exotic people and places come alive on the page.
lames A. Michener is all of these people, and in this vivid and unorthodox memoir he describes the people, events, and ideas that have shaped his life. Moving backward and forward across time, he writes about the many strands of his experience: his passion for travel; his lifelong infatuation with literature, music, and painting; his liberal credo and his adventures in politics; and the hard work, headaches, and rewards of the writing life. Plalnspoken, wise, and enormously sympathetic, here at last is the real ]ames Michener, a man who can truly say, "The world is my home." Vissza