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Tales of the South Pacific

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"Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French plan...more

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Published September 12th 1984 by Fawcett (first published 1947)

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Sep 08, 2007 Matthew Klobucher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think this book is a must-read for any American in the post-WWII era. Framed as a collection of loosely-connected short stories, narrated from a single perspectivce, Mitchner weaves together themes of love, loss, and struggle with a lucid and sometimes technical commentary on the American war effort in the Pacific theater. His characters are both intensely human and larger than life, and the developing theme throughout the book is that titanic and often tragic effors contribute to the betterme...more

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Apr 05, 2013 Gale rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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PASSION AND PENANCE IN PARADISE

Mitchener’s World War 2 collection of short stories remains as vibrant and compelling in terms of human interest today as when it was written. Alternating between the logistics of war with personal suffering and joy, these stories present the reader with a composite of life and death in tropical paradise. Characters popularized in the Broadway musical, South Pacific, appear in several stories in this fascinating patchwork of passion and pathos. As all emotions p...more

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Apr 24, 2012 Ensiform rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, war

Easily more than the sum of its parts, this collection of stories is an eye-opening account of life in wartime: not the horrors of war (though there’s a bit of that), but the waiting, the selfless heroism, the bottled-up passion, the thankless endless toil, the vast logistics of a campaign, the suddenness of death and loss and love. The omission of this work from the academic canon is utterly incomprehensible to me; it’s everything that All Quiet on the Western Front is said to be, and more. Mic...more Easily more than the sum of its parts, this collection of stories is an eye-opening account of life in wartime: not the horrors of war (though there’s a bit of that), but the waiting, the selfless heroism, the bottled-up passion, the thankless endless toil, the vast logistics of a campaign, the suddenness of death and loss and love. The omission of this work from the academic canon is utterly incomprehensible to me; it’s everything that All Quiet on the Western Front is said to be, and more. Michener is far more than a captivating storyteller, collector of colorful characters, painter of vivid natural imagery, and chronicler of the orchestrations of world warfare. Each of the "tales" comprising his carefully-constructed epic narrative is at once thematically and stylistically related to the other smaller narratives and at the same time artistically whole in itself. While he does have poetic phrases at his command, what he can say without saying it – a subtly omitted word or a hint - is breathtaking.

Michener impresses with his vast understanding of the scope of a military operation, as in the chapter “Alligator” (the codename for a fictitious invasion) – the planning, the estimated casualties, the men needed to build, the men needed simply to replace pencils and paper for plans, and on and on – and then he finishes with a few brief, poignant lines of a man who wrote to a plain woman – “who would never be married in a hundred years anyway” – a proposal: “You was very sweet to me and I want to tell you if I…” “But he didn’t. Some don’t.” But, Michener says, that letter plus the one from the chaplain was almost as good as being married. That talent of Michener’s, the ability to juggle the big picture with the little human details, the forgotten grunts, the KIA and the faceless laborers, just blows me away. With every paragraph he weaves a new story of heroism, or efficiency, or defiance, or laziness, or lust, or bravery, or shame, and every character is all too human and believable. It makes the climax of the book, the landing at the island of Kuralei, all the more moving, as his narrator surveys the littered beaches and mourns the dead. This book is quite simply a brilliant masterpiece that should be read by every student of American history; it may be fiction, but it shows more plainly how this was the “Greatest Generation” without hagiography or needless embellishment. The did what they were asked to do, and worked and died and complained and loved, and they weren’t saints or perfect soldiers. They were Americans, is all.(less)

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Jan 01, 2012 Carl rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book, which was the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948, is a collection of little stories about World War II in the South Pacific. James Michener was in the U.S. Navy, and traveled widely through the area, giving him a unique view of various places, people, and events, and these must have been quite fresh in his mind when he wrote the book.

The musical South Pacific was based upon the book. While I read the book some of the music began going through my head, particularly...more

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Aug 22, 2010 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I would never have read this book if the book club here wasn't reading it. I'm glad that I did, though. This is the book that the musical "South Pacific" is based on. The book is much better than the fluffy play whose only redeeming number is "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught."
Michener is an impressive writer simply by the sheer mass and volume of the stories that he writes. He tells the stories of at least a dozen different characters as he details the encounters of American navy men with the...more I would never have read this book if the book club here wasn't reading it. I'm glad that I did, though. This is the book that the musical "South Pacific" is based on. The book is much better than the fluffy play whose only redeeming number is "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught."
Michener is an impressive writer simply by the sheer mass and volume of the stories that he writes. He tells the stories of at least a dozen different characters as he details the encounters of American navy men with the South Pacific French plantation owners and indigenous people.
Michener's main theme in this book is racism, and it's telling that his final chapter is in a cemetery on an island where the African-American cemetery caretaker says that "Up here everybody gets along... Don't make much difference if you're colored or white... When you're dead you forget all that stuff." True, indeed.
However, at the same time, Michener's language seems quite racist and biased itself. The Japanese fighters are always "Japs" or "Nips" or "yellow men." Was Michener just so much a part of the times that he reflects the entrenched racism of the era? Or is he making a comment in using that very language himself? It's not clear to me.
I also was surprised to read a book that, although it points out some of the illogical parts of war (although not anywhere near as much as "Catch-22"), the story seems to glorify war. Things seem very black and white. The Japanese are the bad guys, the Americans the heroes.
Something interesting and sickening that I learned while reading this novel is that the American Navy used live coral in the South Pacific for their airstrips. The live coral, if kept moist with sea water every three days, would bind together perfectly and provide an excellent landing strip with just the right amount of solidity. Somehow, this image of digging up live coral to be used for airstrips revealed the complete and horrible destruction that war entails more than any other scene in the book. (less)

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May 07, 2012 Shawn Thrasher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"They will live a long time, these men of the South Pacific. They had an American quality. They, like their victories, will be remembered as long as our generation lives. After that, like the men of the Confederacy, they will become strangers. Longer and longer shadows will obscure them, until their Guadalcanal sounds distant on the ear like Shiloh and Valley Forge." The greatest generation is passing away, but something beautifully written and moving and romantic and gritty and poignant and sad...more

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Jul 22, 2009 Robert rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008-9-season

This is a book I have heard about for years and finally spurred myself to read - it did not disappoint. The characters and settings from the stage play and the movie are here but they are far from being central to the stories. The book is like a cross between Hemingway and Cain - a product of its time that surpasses the constraints of time. "The Landing on Kuralei" reads like the first twenty minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" looks, brutal and honest. "Coral Sea" captures the day to day insulatio...more

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Aug 12, 2009 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have always wanted to read this, being a HUGE fan of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical adaptation. The only thing I had heard about it was that the adaptation was very loose and that the book was pretty racist, reflecting the times. I found both to be true. It took awhile to get into it, but then you meet such compelling characters as Bus Adams, Luther Billis, and Tony Fry, as well as the narrator, whose voice I thoroughly enjoyed, and you are hooked. It is a book about people, and these peop...more

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May 14, 2010 Kyle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-reads, biography, history, war

I read this in preparation of seeing the current touring production of "South Pacific" this Sunday. The book is much better than I was even anticipating. It's unexpectedly haunting and quite moving. Essentially a collection of short stories with a few recurring characters laced throughout it really provides a panoramic exploration of life for American soldiers in the Pacific waiting for World War II to get started. The strongest stories are reserved for the center of the book, like "Our Heroine,...more

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Mar 14, 2012 Kasey Sinclair rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first Michener read and admittedly it was a bit slow at times, but I'm glad I perservered and finished the book. Unlike Michener's later books which are epic sagas of more pages than I care to think about, this book is only 384 pages, which is a good starting point for those unfamiliar with the depth of detail Michener is known for.

The book is not one solid story but a series of interwoven short stories based on the lives of military officers stationed in the South Pacific during Wor...more

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May 21, 2013 Andrew Kraemer rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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...more

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Jul 31, 2010 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: recent, fiction-historical

James Michener's first big book. If you didn't live through World War II, which is most of us alive today, read this book. It is very much about the lives, loves, losses, costs, social, class and racial conflicts, and organizational thinking of that era. Books like Snow Falling on Cedars may be more accessible today, and that is really the point. Reading this, I felt immersed in the war in the Pacific, and all of it, since most of the book is about the rear-areas.

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Jan 16, 2013 Roxanne Russell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pulitzer-fiction

Here's a book I've heard about all my life, maybe more so the musical, and an author who couldn'tbe more popular. He was a favorite of my grandfather's. I get the sense that his narrative voice may have been similar to the voice in my grandfather's head- the same matter-of-fact, US white male dominated world-view that pre-dated the 70's. Yet, still sensitive to all people and empathetic to the human condition. It was interesting to read this just after Guard of Honor- same war, same time period-...more

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Dec 13, 2008 Jack Kirby and the X-man rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, library_book, military, historical-fiction, author-us, setting-pacific-vanuatu, setting-pacific-solomon-islands, 2008, setting-pacific, 1940s

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I love the typical Michener epic scale of this book. I used to sit down and read Michener for hours at a time, but parenting seems to mean I can only catch 1/2 hour to an hour here and there. This book is perfect for this - there are a number of recurring characters which maintains that epic scale - but in general they are pretty self contained stories of 10-60 pages long - just right for a baby's nap!

For the majority of the book the war is simply forming a backdrop, an excuse for all the charac...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Andrew rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the book that gave me wanderlust. Read first at the age of 14, it communicates the adventure of travel and of seeing the world,
Nellie Forbush style. But the tale of Nellie, told well in the movie version of "South Pacific", is not nearly as powerful as many of the other stories. Michener has crafted about half of the stories so that a powerful punchline is delivered at the end of the short story.

I read this book before even reading "Hawaii" and have long felt that Michener's historical n...more

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Mar 14, 2013 Gerry Beane rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having read a number of Michener's novels, I had high expectations for this Pulitzer Prize Winner. I was sorely disappointed. I expected some of the same historic detail that was obviously based on in-depth research that I had experienced in Centennial, Poland, Hawaii and Chesapeake, but it just wasn't there. Even the character development was as thin as any other average novel. The various short stories were only tentatively related so the theme of the South Pacific didn't carry the rhythm or c...more

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Jan 24, 2009 Pamela rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am pleasantly pleased with this book. I have read lots of historical fiction on many topics but none from the South Pacific. Granted, I appreciate a good war novel and most of the novels I have read have been about the Vietnam War. But this was a well-written and well-balanced personal account of the fight in the South Pacific during WWII.

This is a war novel that can be appreciated by both men and women. Sometimes accounts of war are geared for the macho reader and get very technical...untrue...more

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Sep 08, 2011 Christopher MacMillan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pulitzer-prize-winners-and-nominees

With its technical army-related terms, Michener's dark writing style, and an overwhelming amount of characters, Tales of the South Pacific was not at all the upbeat breeze of a book I had expected it to be based upon the musical. I had first picked this up in October, ploughed through the first four stories, grew frustrated, and put it down. Six months later, I decided to give it another go, and this time - knowing what to expect - I found myself drawn into the exotic world that Michener creates...more With its technical army-related terms, Michener's dark writing style, and an overwhelming amount of characters, Tales of the South Pacific was not at all the upbeat breeze of a book I had expected it to be based upon the musical. I had first picked this up in October, ploughed through the first four stories, grew frustrated, and put it down. Six months later, I decided to give it another go, and this time - knowing what to expect - I found myself drawn into the exotic world that Michener creates for us in the pages of this novel.

Told from the point-of-view of an anonymous Navy officer, we witness war-life on the islands in the South Pacific: the fear, the paranoia, the daily routines, but mostly the tediousness and what these soldiers, lieutenants, nurses, colonels, and officers do to occupy their time in the idyllic tropical paradise in which they find themselves. The episodic stories are intertwined, with certain characters - like the all-American pilot Bus Adams and the charming, girl-crazy Tony Fry - appearing frequently, whiles others - like the vulgar native merchant Bloody Mary and the love-struck Lt. Joe Cable - only appear once. But regardless of how often they show up in the pages of Tales of the South Pacific, each character is interesting, intriguing, and helps to make this book even more spellbinding.

Michener's writing style is really smart. The stories are realistic enough to be perfectly believable, and yet there's almost a folklore quality about them. Like tales of the war told by someone who was there, and who is now recounting them over a drink, there's just a bit of exaggeration to them, and yet we recognize the truth therein. With lots of symbolism, morals, and ambiguity, Michener gives us a whole lot to ponder over when reading between the lines of each story, too. He challenges us to find our own meaning in each one of these moving, colourful vignettes, and that meaning is not always obvious.

The luscious, exotic atmosphere with its white sand beaches, tropical flowers and plants, erupting volcanoes, and tribal natives. The strict, no-nonsense military life, with its rules and regulations, its guns, its planes, its boats, and its materialistic enlisted men who are bored and missing American life. The two are juxtaposed in this rich book, and I am so happy that I decided to give it another chance (and to even re-read the stories I had already read). Knowing what to expect this time around, I saw all of the beauty that this emotionally-stirring, thought-provoking novel has to offer.

This was wonderful, and I'm making a promising to myself to re-read this again one day. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I am so happy that a book like this could have won the Pulitzer Prize.(less)

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Jul 05, 2009 Rob rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, pulitzer-prize, historical-fiction

Michener's first novel and my first Michener read. It will certainly not be my last. Excellent book. Written just after WW II and based on Michener's experiences on the South Pacific front.

Each chapter was separate, but yet interwoven with the others. A bunch of related short stories. Incredibly easy to read and hard to put down. You are taken into the everyday lives of soldiers on different islands, as well as the native population. I now have a real taste of a life spent waiting for battle in...more

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Jul 10, 2009 Dennis Cline rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tales of the South Pacific - Michener's first book is truly a gem. Compiled from articles he wrote for the Navy newspaper while serving in the South Pacific, he earned his first Pulitzer. RKO Films was quick to buy the rights thinking it would make a great movie. John Wayne and the Sands of Iwo Jimo played a hand in RKO never producing the film. Not to be deterred, Michener sold the stage rights to a Broadway producer who promptly developed the timeless musical South Pacific.
If you are a stude...more

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Jul 29, 2011 HA rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interesting. More about the racial, social and sexual mores of the WWII-era than anything else. Compared to similar novels of the era, this one probably seemed a little more jaded, not to mention controversial. A little too much romance in it for me, but maybe that's what his editor thought would be needed to sell the book. Otherwise it would only have been a bunch of stories about Sailors and Marines going nuts from boredom while waiting for another invasion to kick off. All in all, probably th...more

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Apr 09, 2011 Adam K. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The lower star rating for this one is not entirely Michener's fault. He won the pulitzer prize for it, and who am I to besmirch that? It's Michener's first book, too, so that's quite an achievement. This collection of interconnected stories was published right after WWII and is thus very current and relevant. Most of them have to do with soldiers' lives in the Pacific in between battles and waiting for the action to happen. Their wonder at the beauty of their environment is juxtaposed against du...more

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Aug 12, 2011 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’ve read some of Michener’s work before, but this is much different from the other titles I have under my belt. While they were essentially short stories linked together because they were all pertaining to the history of a geographic location, these were linked mainly by the people they involved all pushing towards one specific goal. Okay, now that I say that, it does sound similar. But these short stories are very separate from each other. While the characters sometimes cross over, each entry...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Robin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, biography, fiction

This is James Michener’s first book, hammered out on an old typewriter in a Quonset hut on Vanuatu during WWII. He hadn’t written before, but the intense exposure to the pressures of war and Michener’s curiosity about human character under such pressure inspired him to stay up nights on end telling stories. Michener tells the stories of Americans of all military ranks from varied backgrounds and their interactions with each other, island natives, and island colonials. These tales are told in fir...more

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Jul 19, 2009 Sam Nelson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jun 15, 2009 Kenny rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Howard Winant points to the questioning of unchallenged American values—“was the United States really ‘the land of the free, and the home of the brave’? (148)—as the “end of innocence,” led by the black civil rights movement and sympathizers. In his use of the facetious, dramatized, bigoted caricature of a young Midwestern nurse, Nellie Forbush, Michener addresses the end of innocence by calling attention to Nurse Forbush’s ignorant racism through her own absurd, erratic behavior. Specifically,...more Howard Winant points to the questioning of unchallenged American values—“was the United States really ‘the land of the free, and the home of the brave’? (148)—as the “end of innocence,” led by the black civil rights movement and sympathizers. In his use of the facetious, dramatized, bigoted caricature of a young Midwestern nurse, Nellie Forbush, Michener addresses the end of innocence by calling attention to Nurse Forbush’s ignorant racism through her own absurd, erratic behavior. Specifically, the momentary suspension of her infatuation towards De Becque upon seeing his dark-skinned daughters casts her in an irrational, brutish light. Michener’s description of Nellie’s violent emotional and physical aversion to children suggests that he himself disapproves of such behavior, and was generally reproving such ignorance as could be found at that time in the United States, particularly in the more rural areas, seen in Nellie’s own background: “Her entire Arkansas upbringing made it impossible for her to deny the teachings of her youth” (138). We can understand the negative connotations attributed to Nellie’s character especially in the juxtaposition of her rant—“Emile De Becque had lived with the nigger. He had nigger children. If she married him, they would be her step-daughters” (138)—and the repeated use (or variation on) the word “children.” Such hatred, as read in Nellie’s “revulsion,” seems incongruent and simply wrong when directed towards children, a point which Michener emphasizes by lumping such loathing with more innocent vocabulary (too, “step-daughters”). Furthermore, after her tantrum, Nellie becomes even more of a ridiculous character in Michener’s own description, behaving like a child (“‘No!’ Nellie cried in real anguish, stamping her foot. ‘It isn’t that! It’s something you don’t know.’” (139)) and taking actions that, out of context of the rest of the narrative, might otherwise illustrate a truly insane person. Her extreme swings of emotion—between recoiling from De Becque and the children for his involvement with their dark-skinned mothers, and sudden, feverish desire for the adventure that living on an island and entering into such an exotic family suggest—discredit her character, and advocate for a reading that holds at least some intentional degree of irony on Michener’s part. In this way, by creating a truly ridiculous, non-commendable character who’s defining trait at the end of the narrative is her deplorable racism (towards children), the author himself challenges the same as-yet-unquestioned values of American life that the “end of innocence” confronts, and suggests that racial discrimination not be left unopposed, but, rooted in ignorance, should be corrected by education and the entry into a new post-war era of equality.(less)

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May 18, 2013 JP rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Read this in Maui. He published it in 1946 after which it became the basis for the musical. There are a myriad of great characters but the overall theme prevails as the gem within this work. Michener shares the other side of World War II. Forget the Longest Day. These men spent the longest years waiting... and waiting. Most to return to boring lives or die in places soon to be unknown. I picture this as what my grandfather lived in New Caledonia.

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Dec 08, 2012 Sheri rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I recently read that James Michener's writing is not considered good literature. Maybe not. but he is still rates as one of my very favorite authors. This, however, is one of my least favorite of his books. It's his first novel and he won a Pulitzer Prize for it. It's well written as always, but it's written about our presence in the South Pacific during World War 2, which I found difficult to read about at times. It's definitely worth reading though.

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Dec 19, 2011 Eva Nickelson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book is a set of stories that are loosely tied together. They depict the build up to a battle during WWII in the Pacific theater. This isn't a book so much about battle (although those scenes do exist), but the waiting that is involved for the enlisted soldiers, and even the lower ranking officers. Michener portrays these men as out of sync with their regular lives, due to both the war and the location. The South Pacific islands are so different from what the US soldiers were used to, that t...more

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Nov 18, 2010 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Just finished this this morning. I found it very moving, quietly told. Moments I particularly remember were the men singing together and remembering their last leave on US soil before they go in to fight. Also the lonely young man with the pen pal girl friend he has never met. Although told in a very simple straight forward way I felt as if I knew the characters. Even characters I generally liked didn't always behave well--which made them all the more human.

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James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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