Sayonara

James Albert Michener

Random House, 1954 - Fiction - 243 pages

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User Review  - LynleyS - LibraryThing

I'm conflicted when it comes to rating this book, which is a confronting tale of sexism and racism and it pissed me off at regular intervals. But because it was written in 1954, I've no doubt it's an ...

SAYONARA

User Review  - Kirkus

Along the "Butterfly" theme is this story of the incorruptible young officer, Major Lloyd Gruver, West Point '44 and Korean war ace, whose smug belief that he will follow the career laid out by his ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 19

About the author

Universally revered novelist James A. Michener was forty before he decided on writing as a career. Prior to that, he had been an outstanding academic, an editor, and a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His first book, Tales of the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis of the award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. In the course of the next forty years Mr. Michener wrote such monumental bestsellers as Sayonara, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Hawaii, The Source, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Alaska, Caribbean, and Mexico.
Decorated with America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Michener served on the Advisory Council to NASA, held honorary doctorates in five fields from thirty leading universities, and received an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities for his continuing commitment to art in America. James A. Michener died on October 16, 1997.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sayonara
• Author: James Albert Michener
• Publisher: Random House, 1954
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 30, 2008
• Length: 243 pages
• Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Americans; Europe; Fiction / Historical; Hunting; Japan; Large type books; Soldiers; United States