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Original Title: Tales of the South Pacific
ISBN: 0449206521 (ISBN13: 9780449206522)
Edition Language: English
Setting: South Pacific,1943 Solomon Islands Norfolk Island
Literary Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1948)
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Tales of the South Pacific Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 384 pages
Rating: 4.04 | 13942 Users | 410 Reviews

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Title:Tales of the South Pacific
Author:James A. Michener
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 384 pages
Published:September 12th 1984 by Fawcett Books (first published 1947)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Short Stories. War. Classics. World War II

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1948 Pulitzer Prize winner. This was the book that caused the Pulitzer committee to change the name of the category from novel to fiction. That's because this is actually a group of 19 short stories, and they are similar in themes and subject matter, and they are sequential or chronological which gives it the feeling of a novel. It's about WWII in the Pacific. An ugly, horrific disaster taking place in paradise; talk about a contradiction. But it's historical fiction at a high level; you don't come away from a Michener book saying I didn't learn anything. And where most historical fiction writers lean heavily on the fiction and less on the history, Michener leans on the history. This book spawned a successful Broadway musical, South Pacific, and a feature film. It was also the basis for Michener's television series, Adventures in Paradise. If you are a Michener newbie I wouldn't start with this one. I always recommend Hawaii. I think it is his best novel, and if you are only going to read one, that should be the one. 4 stars.

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Ratings: 4.04 From 13942 Users | 410 Reviews

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I must say I LOVE this book.Michener's tale is about what people do in a war when they are just forced to sit around on lots of islands because the alternative is allowing the Japanese to sit around on them instead.It was the war he says when everyone got a chance to read Tolstoy's "War and Peace".That's how long it was...the book AND the waiting.'Rock-jolly' got some - these cracked and had to be sent back to the States 'under guard'.Another stole a truck with nowhere to go - his island had

**Review Pending**How does one review a book like this? I took awhile to get through it (but that could be just me - I don't particularly feel the need to rush through books like this... only taking it in a bit at a time) but I found it quite engaging on the whole. I found out that it inspired a Rodgers & Hammerstein film of the same name - and after that I could not but read the book in that narrator voice that usually comes from films of that era so that the whole reading experience became

I must say that I really did not enjoy reading this book. It is incredibly slow, is shows a very distorted fairy-taleesque picture of the Pacific theater, and many of the problems in the story, in my opinion, are incredibly mundane. However, despite disliking the book I respect the role of Tales of the South Pacific in American literary history. Here's why: When this book was released in 1947, it was the book America needed, not the book that best showed life in the Pacific. The American public

This was Michener's first book and it is obvious why it won the Pulitzer. Written in 1946 and published a year later, it must have been one of the first epics on the Second World War, and one that focused entirely on the Pacific theatre would catch the eye of the jury even easier. Although widely fictional - as always with Michener - the excellent short stories and tales take the reader along some of the U.S. Navy operations between 1942 and '44, focusing on the Solomon and Russell islands, as

James A. Michener, like so many aspiring novelists, did not find success until he was nearly forty. But when he did find it with Tales of South Pacific, his first published novel, he seemed to have started at the zenith of his career, winning the Pulitzer in 1948, and having Roger and Hammerstein adapt his work for a Broadway musical in 1949. The motion picture South Pacific topped the box office in 1958 and its soundtrack, with such well known favorites as Bali-Hai, Some Enchanted Evening, and

Our fathers and grandfathers war. Now we need to fight the one on our hands. Can't do a good review with current GR settings. Just housekeeping here.

Tales Of The South Pacific won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. Another WWII novel, but this one is a series of short stories of the war in the pacific. James Michener is a great story teller and I enjoyed his writing. I give Tales Of The South Pacific 4 stars.