Conversations with Michener: The Author of Everywhere... - Softcover

Grobel, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500754587 ISBN 13: 9781500754587

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

After successfully publishing his book-length interviews with Truman Capote and Marlon Brando, Grobel approached author James A. Michener as his next subject, and wound up taping their discussions over a 17 year period, right up until the last week of Michener’s life. The result is the most comprehensive of all Grobel’s “Conversation” books. Michener, who didn’t start writing novels until he was 40, was a true citizen of the world. He foresaw the future of countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Poland, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, Israel, and the U.S. His books—like Hawaii, The Source, Iberia, Sayonara, and Tales of the South Pacific--sold millions of copies and many were made into films or TV miniseries. Conversations with Michener is as relevant today as it was prescient when it first appeared in 1999.

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From the Back Cover:

"In conversations that took place between 1980 and October 1997, just days before his death, Michener met with Lawrence Grobel. Over the years their meetings at Michener's homes in Florida, Maine, and Texas, as well as in New York and Los Angeles, turned their acquaintance into a friendship."--BOOK JACKET. "The product of these revealing discussions is Talking with Michener, the first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the famed writer."--BOOK JACKET. "Here Michener explores such topics as sex, love, pornography, politics, abortion, AIDS, plagiarism, sports, the current state of publishing, and the status of the artist in society. To Grobel he reveals many personal milestones and struggles - his dialysis; the death of his wife Mari; his service in the war; his travels to Antarctica and to Pearl Harbor on the 50th anniversary of the bombing; and his philanthropy totaling $120 million."--BOOK JACKET.

From the Inside Flap:

The first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tales of the South Pacific and many other works

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500754587
• ISBN 13: 9781500754587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290