Iberia
by James A. Michener
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- Paperback
- Condition
- MICHENER. HISTORICAL FICTION. Fine
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About This Item
1982. Mass media paperback. MICHENER. HISTORICAL FICTION. Fine . 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. As new but for the yellowing of paper. About the book: Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener?s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer. Praise for Iberia From the glories of the Prado to the loneliest stone villages, here is Spain, castle of old dreams and new realities.The New York Times Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject. The Wall Street Journal A dazzling panorama . . . one of the richest and most satisfying books about Spain in living memory.Saturday Review Kaleidoscopic . . . This book will make you fall in love with Spain. The Houston Post
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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- The Sun Also Rises
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- Title
- Iberia
- Author
- James A. Michener
- Format/Binding
- Mass media paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - MICHENER. HISTORICAL FICTION. Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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