The World is My Home: A Memoir (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Michener, James A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679739815 ISBN 13: 9780679739814

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 1992

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"CAPTIVATING . . . HIGHLY REVEALING."
--The New York Times

"MICHENER IS EVERYTHING HE SAYS, AND MORE. . . . The best parts of this engaging and readable work concern his World War II experiences in the South Pacific, where he met a woman actually named Bloody Mary (long before the drink was invented) and where he stumbled on a miserable little Melanesian village whose name so charmed him that he wrote it down: Bali-H'ai. The story of how his often hilarious adventures turned into a book and then a Broadway musical so successful that after opening night he couldn't afford to buy a ticket is really the heart of his autobiography."
--The Washington Post Book World

"A SWEEPINGLY INTERESTING LIFE . . . Rivals any fiction for tales of geographic or mental adventure. . . . Whether he's having an epiphany over a campout in New Guinea with head-hunting cannibals or getting politically charged by the melodrama of great opera, James A. Michener's world is a place and a time worth reading about."
--The Christian Science Monitor

"TOUCHING AND REVEALING."
--San Francisco Chronicle

From the Inside Flap:

JAMES MICHENER 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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679739815
• ISBN 13: 9780679739814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1062