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"Featuring the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener's The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Earnest, grave, nostalgic and warm.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- James A. Michener
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 193
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Dial Press Trade Paperback, Random House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781306567848
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**James A. Michener** was born in 1907 and raised by a Quaker woman in Pennsylvania. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy and traveled across the Pacific. His *Tales of the South Pacific* won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. He lived with his wife in Austin, Texas. He was director of the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
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