- Social life and customs, Eastern question (Far East), Eastern question (East Asia), Asia
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Earnest, cool, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- James A. Michener
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Random House, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394450773
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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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