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James A. Michener

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by James A. Michener ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 19, 1989

Cut from the manuscript of Alaska, written in the same flat, fact-filled style, this chapter from the Klondike Gold Rush recounts a disastrous English expedition doggedly intent on reaching the gold fields without straying from Empire soil. Lord Lutton, "aloof. . .with an insufferable patrician manner," believes in the superiority of all things British. Upon hearing of the Rush, Lutton decides to mount an expedition that will reach the Klondike by way of Edmonton, Canada, avoiding the despised America. But, as were some 1500 others, he was misled by unscrupulous residents of that boom town (not one seeker found gold; 70 died en route). With his nephew, Philip Henslow, plucked out of Oxford; Harry Carpenter, an experienced traveler; Trevor Blythe, a poet chum of Philip's; and Tim Fogarty, a practical Irishman and the expedition's servant, he travels by steamer and rail to Edmonton. From this tent-town bedlam the group sails the great Mackenzie River towards the Arctic Ocean, planning to cut across the Rockies and head south to the gold fields. After one winter successfully weathered, nephew Philip drowns, and, due to Lutton's refusal to take sensible routes (which cross American soil), Harry and Trevor die of scurvy. After further misadventures, Fogarty and Lutton reach their goal, only to discover that their two-year trip had been accomplished by the less obstinate in 15 weeks. Padded to an un-Michenerly 245 pp.—with a chapter on how the novel came to be and excerpts from a volume of poetry privately printed by Lutton to commemorate the expedition—this is a mere day-trip through Michener's heavy-handed prose and easy travel, no doubt a best-seller.

Pub Date: July 19, 1989

ISBN: 0449218473

Page Count: 340

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: Sept. 30, 2011

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1989

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by Hanya Yanagihara ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015

The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel.

Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.

Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees , 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. There aren’t even many markers of what’s happening in the outside world; Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don’t see the neighborhood change from gritty artists’ enclave to glitzy tourist destination. What we get instead is an intensely interior look at the friends’ psyches and relationships, and it’s utterly enthralling. The four men think about work and creativity and success and failure; they cook for each other, compete with each other and jostle for each other’s affection. JB bases his entire artistic career on painting portraits of his friends, while Malcolm takes care of them by designing their apartments and houses. When Jude, as an adult, is adopted by his favorite Harvard law professor, his friends join him for Thanksgiving in Cambridge every year. And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life.  

Pub Date: March 10, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-385-53925-8

Page Count: 720

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: Dec. 21, 2014

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2015

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by J.D. Salinger ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1951

A strict report, worthy of sympathy.

A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen ) has a compulsive impact.

"Nobody big except me" is the dream world of Holden Caulfield and his first person story is down to the basic, drab English of the pre-collegiate. For Holden is now being bounced from fancy prep, and, after a vicious evening with hall- and roommates, heads for New York to try to keep his latest failure from his parents. He tries to have a wild evening (all he does is pay the check), is terrorized by the hotel elevator man and his on-call whore, has a date with a girl he likes—and hates, sees his 10 year old sister, Phoebe. He also visits a sympathetic English teacher after trying on a drunken session, and when he keeps his date with Phoebe, who turns up with her suitcase to join him on his flight, he heads home to a hospital siege. This is tender and true, and impossible, in its picture of the old hells of young boys, the lonesomeness and tentative attempts to be mature and secure, the awful block between youth and being grown-up, the fright and sickness that humans and their behavior cause the challenging, the dramatization of the big bang. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….

Pub Date: June 15, 1951

ISBN: 0316769177

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Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2011

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Journey , a novel by James Michener published in 1989, was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel Alaska (1988). The book depicts five men, one of whom being an English Lord (Lord Luton), who journey from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon in 1897-99 to participate in the Klondike gold rush . According to the novel's afterword, the section was cut from the original book because Alaska already contained a chapter on the Alaskan side of the gold rush. It was decided that chapter (which eventually became Journey ) could stand on its own as a short novel. [1] [2]

Directed by Lord Luton, the group purposefully embarks on a more difficult than normal route available to pioneers of the era, purely to ensure that they remain the entire route on British soil, avoiding American territory which Luton has a patriotic aversion against. Along the way they encounter the Athabasca Landing , the Great Slave Lake , the Mackenzie River , Fort Norman (a remote Hudson's Bay Company outpost), exploding ice floes in springtime, starvation, scurvy, swarming Arctic mosquitoes and members of the native Hän group.

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One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields. Vivid and sweeping, featuring Michener’s probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, this is the kind of novel only he could write.   Praise for Journey   “Stunning . . . Michener at his best.” — Houston Chronicle   “Michener brings sharply into focus the hardships encountered by those who dreamed of striking it rich.” —Associated Press   “Michener has amassed a peerless reputation as the heralded dean of the historical tome. . . . Journey is a book that envelops the reader in an atmosphere of hazardous escapades.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch   “Remarkable . . . superb literature.” — The Pittsburgh Press From the Hardcover edition.

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I love Michener's work, too, Cathy! I liked this one very much. One thing that I especially liked was the way Michener shows the times and cultures through human eyes, if that makes sense. And you're right; his characters really come alive. It's hard not to get drawn in...

It makes perfect sense. I'm glad to hear that you're a fellow Michener fan, Margot.

Michener - I too read so many of his books and they were indeed long. I haven't read this one. 200 pages - ha! Who'd have thunk it? Will keep it in mind. After reading Herman Wouk's WWII two-book saga (or rereading it) recently, I've been remembering fondly some of the long, long books I read in the '80's. It was definitely the era of the saga.

It certainly was, and there were some marvelous ones written.

What a great anecdote about where the story came from. Alaska was one of my dad's favorites .

My mother and I loved devouring Michener.

I had not heard of this Michener book either, so I'm glad to learn about it. And Diana Gabaldon is the only other author I can think of with a similar lengthy writing style - the first of her Lord John mysteries was intended to be a short story!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hadn't heard of Journey. We're certainly on the same page because Gabaldon was the first author to pop into my mind when I thought of BIG books!

Thank you for taking the time to make a comment. I really appreciate it!

Michener Tries Parable : JOURNEY : <i> by James A. Michener (Random House: $16.95; 246 pp.; 0-394-57826-0) </i>

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Let’s begin with the good part. About a third of the way into this brief novel, around Page 80, one has a sense of being inside an old-fashioned but beautifully maintained narrative machine, the storytelling equivalent of, say, a “cherry” 1950 Rolls-Royce. It was here the reviewer, a first-time James A. Michener reader, began to have intimations of the novelist celebrated by an enormous international public. Michener builds a paragraph with a stamp all his own, frequently incorporating exchanges of dialogue that work seamlessly within it. “There are writers, and there are storytellers,” a friend once put it, “and Michener is a storyteller, and a very good one.” Around now in the narrative--and for some time to come--that seemed to state the case fairly.

“Journey” is the story of a doomed expedition to the Klondike in the Gold Rush period of the 1890s led by an iron-willed 40-year-old British nobleman, Lord Evelyn Luton. He is accompanied by three English aristocrats: an adventurer contemporary, and two younger men, both Oxford educated, one of them Luton’s nephew and the other the nephew’s friend, a young poet. Along with these four is a lower-class Scotsman, a gifted salmon poacher whose savvy as an outdoorsman and devotion to his social superiors make him the group’s utility man.

Does Michener have in mind atomizing the British class system, watching the old empire at work in the microcosm of the expeditions? This question came up around midway. Then, as the men live through a long Northern Canadian winter in a wood cabin they’ve built themselves, and manage to do it without major upheavals, even growing fond of reading aloud to each other in the evening from “Great Expectations” and “Palgrave’s Golden Treasury,” the novel feels as salutary as a volume from the old Landmark series for boys. Did Michener have in mind, perhaps, just a good old-fashioned adventure story?

Finally, as the book advances toward its grim, almost absurdist climax, one wonders if this isn’t, after all, a character study, a parable of the British nobleman locked in a rigid panoply of behavioral tics that leads inevitably to tragedy. Michener himself seems to second this in an appendix, “Reflections,” when he writes with an uncertainty of tone and substance that understandably may infect the veteran novelist when he stands naked and alone outside his native province of narrative:

“I had said something important, in parable form it is true and therefore limited in certain significant ways, but also with the potential of achieving the readership that sometimes accrues to parable, and I had a strong desire to see it published and in circulation, especially among Canadians for whom I had intended it in the first place.”

In the end, all possible glosses aside, the book has a central problem: Michener fails to bring to any of his characters enough of the idiosyncratic grit and piquancy of real human beings. Here are, rather, four Englishman and a Scot direct from Central Casting who exist only inside a sort of Warner Brothers lot of a book with Indians and extras always on the set at the right moment. The young poet has only fine feelings, Lord Luton’s nephew is all the brave innocent, while his old friend and fellow adventurer is a mature can-do guy to the letter. And the Scot is the man of the lower classes who, in exhibiting unqualified loyalty, has won the right to argue on behalf of the poacher who--make no mistake--poaches only for food for his family.

Then too, Michener started out as a teacher and there are times the novelistic impulse is overwhelmed by the pedagogical: “The traveler could, if he had the time and money,” we are told at one point apropos of no option considered by the protagonists, “deviate from the normal rail route which traversed northern Ontario, go instead to Toronto and onward to Windsor on the Detroit, board a luxurious steamer and spend several delightful days transiting Lakes Huron and Superior, disembarking at Fort William to resume the rail trip west to the Pacific.” This was no doubt handy information to a lot of people back in the 1890s in Canada, but it has no relevance to anyone in the novel.

Well, these are days, after all, when writers out of graduate writing programs play fast and loose with the conventions of narrative. The lauded young writer, Michael Chabon, for instance, begins a recent story in The New Yorker in the first person, and, while still inside it, goes into the mind of the first-person narrator’s friend, which, outside of the science-fiction genre, is a very neat trick indeed. But on Page 53 of “Journey,” Michener goes him one better. In an exchange with a family of Estonians, veterans of the Gold Rush, Lord Luton’s nephew learns of many horrors, culminating with “. . . snow comes, everyone on that trail freeze to death,” the incorrect verb tense indicating immigrants’ English. However, several lines below on the same page, he hears this from one of the Estonians: “If we’d’a tried to push on, we’d’a been snowed in, proper, all winter.” Push on? Proper? The Estonian suddenly sounds like a Cockney. Unless this is a book about the transmigration of souls, the storyteller, on this occasion, is playing writer, relying on language and character and not quite bringing it off.

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James Albert Michener or simply James A. Michener, as he is popularly known as, is a well known novelist, philanthropist and story writer from Pennsylvania, United States. James was born on February 3, 1907 in New York, United States. He is most famous for writing the multi-generation historical and fictional stories. The titles of his novels are usually based on a particular geographical location. James has stated in his interviews that he was greatly influenced by the works of Charles Dickens. In his overall writing career, James has written more than 40 novels and stories, most of which are based on the historical fiction, Biographical, Memoirs and History genres. His writings typically include lengthy family dramas, describing many generations located in a particular geographical location. Many of his books have been bestsellers and widely popular for being selected in many Book-of-the-Month clubs. His works depict the in-depth research done by him before penning down the stories. The most notable work of James includes, Hawaii, Caribbean, Alaska, Poland and many more. The non-fiction works of James include Iberia, which is based on his travel experiences in Portugal and Spain. Other non-fiction works include Sports in America. The first of James was adapted by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rogers into South Pacific, a popular Broadway musical, and also into a film having the same title. James Michener has worked hard throughout his life and has a lived a modest life. As a philanthropist, he donated over 100 million dollars to many educational and cultural institutions as well as writing associations. The Texas University was privileged to receive a donation of 37 million dollars from him.

Michener was adopted and raised by another woman and does not know about his biological parents. Mabel Michener raised him as his son in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He passed out school from Pennsylvania in the year 1925 and went on to attend the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Michener was a regular member of the college basketball team. He graduated in the year 1929 with a degree in Psychology and English subjects. After that, he went to Europe and studied here for a couple of years. Later, he began teaching at a school in Pennsylvania as an English teacher. Between the years 1933 and 1936, Michener taught English to the students of the George School in Newton, Pennsylvania. Later, he got the Master’s degree from the Colorado University and also taught there for a few years. Because of his contribution towards literature, the Colorado University has named their library after him. He went to teach at Harvard from 1939 to 1940, and then joined the Macmillan Publishers as an education editor for their social studies. During the time of the Second World War, he was called by the Navy of the United States for active duty.

Michener was mistaken to be the son of the Admiral Marc Mitscher by his base commanders and as a result, he was asked to travel on various assignments around the Pacific Ocean. He gained a lot of experiences during these trips, which he has described in his first novel. When John F. Kennedy was elected in the year 1960 by the Bucks County, Michener was their active chairman. He also contested election from the state of Pennsylvania, although he later regretted that decision because of his unsuccessful attempt. In the year 1968, he served for Joseph S. Clark as his campaign manager and later became the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. While on the national duty as a Naval lieutenant during the Second World War, Michener began his writing career by gaining experiences from the assignments. His first novel was published in the year 1947. He even opted for television writing as a career during that time, but did not see much success. He was approached by Bob Mann, the famous American television producer for co-creating an anthology series and serving as a narrator, based on his first novel. However, the rights were already bought by Hammerstein and Rogers for their Broadway musical. He did some television work during the late 1950s.

During his career as a writer, Michener had become quite famous as his novels had sold more than 75 million copies all over the world. His novel Centennial, which was based on the several generations of the families, was adapted into a television miniseries comprising of 12 parts. The miniseries was aired from 1978 to 199 on NBC under the same name. His typical style of writing would sometimes cause the novels to be more than 1,000 pages long as he used to spend around 12 hours typing and used to use a lot of paper. Patti Koon, Vange Nord and Mari Yoriko Sabusawa were the three wives of Michener, he had divorced the first two before marrying the third one. He wrote a quasi-autobiographical novel named Sayonara, after his third wife died in the year 1994. His donations in millions as a philanthropist to a number of institutions and Writers Workshop is considered noteworthy. He also contributed his earnings from the novel Journey for the Journey Prize, which awarded to the best story of the year by an emerging writer from Canada. Before dying on October 16, 1997 in Austin, Michener used to live in Austin along with his wife. The University provides fellowships in the name of Michener to the students of the graduate writing program. Michener succumbed to his terminal kidney disease after battling it for more than four years on dialysis. He was cremated in Austin. The Postal Service of United States honored Michener with a postage stamp in the year 2008. He was awarded the Lone Sailor Award in the year 1993 for his contribution to the Navy. The government of Pennsylvania opened an Art Museum and a Literary Society in his name to honor his literary works.

The first novel written by Michener was published in the year 1947 under the title “Tales of the South Pacific”. The novel depicts the lives of a man and a woman who are caught in the middle of a war in the Pacific Ocean. A young Marine falls for a beautiful Tonkinese girl. The girl is depicted as Nurse Nellie and the man as Emile De Becque. The novel went on to win the Pulitzer Award in the year 1948 for its beautiful description of soldiers, nurses and sailors craving for love during the war times in the Solomon Islands and the Norfolk Island. Another beautiful novel written by Michener was published under the title “Hawaii” in the year 1959 and shows depictions of the region of Hawaii, United States. The novel describes the dwelling of Polynesian seafarers in the volcanic islands of Hawaii. They live a happy life in the tropical paradise until the arrival of the American missionaries in the early nineteenth century, who bring a new way of life with them. Michener had done a lot of research before writing the novel. He has described it as a story of distinct people who try to keep their identity and live in harmony with one another.

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One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields. Vivid and sweeping, featuring Michener’s probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, this is the kind of novel only he could write.   Praise for Journey   “Stunning . . . Michener at his best.”— Houston Chronicle   “Michener brings sharply into focus the hardships encountered by those who dreamed of striking it rich.”—Associated Press   “Michener has amassed a peerless reputation as the heralded dean of the historical tome. . . . Journey is a book that envelops the reader in an atmosphere of hazardous escapades.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch   “Remarkable . . . superb literature.”— The Pittsburgh Press

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"Stunning . . . Michener at his best."-- Houston Chronicle "Michener brings sharply into focus the hardships encountered by those who dreamed of striking it rich."-- Associated Press "Michener has amassed a peerless reputation as the heralded dean of the historical tome. . . . Journey is a book that envelops the reader in an atmosphere of hazardous escapades."-- Richmond Times-Dispatch "Remarkable . . . superb literature."-- The Pittsburgh Press

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• Print length 240 pages
• Language English
• Publisher McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date October 1, 1989
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (October 1, 1989)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0771058667
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0771058660
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces

About the author

James a. michener.

James Albert Michener (/ˈmɪtʃnər/; February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. Michener was known for the popularity of his works; he had numerous bestsellers and works selected for Book of the Month Club. He was also known for his meticulous research behind the books.

Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal; his memoir titled The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place.

His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and later as a film by the same name, adding to his financial success.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo byRobert Wilson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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