Publisher: New York: Random House Publishing, 2014.
Annotation: "Tales of the South Pacific is the iconic, Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterpiece inspired a Broadway Classic and launched the career of James A. Michener, one of America's most beloved storytellers." (Goodreads)
Set in the South Pacific during World War II, this work invites the reader to examine the beauty of the landscape. The reader is also given an in-depth perspective of the men and women who were involved in World War II. Three story-lines take place in this novel:
1) A marine that falls in love with a Tonkinese woman
2) A French aristocrat who challenges a navy nurse's narrow and prejudiced view on the world
3) Soldiers who are based in a tropical paradise with the horrors
of war dawning upon them
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