Summary: Don't bother reading the back of the book on this one. It references events in the last 75 pages or so (of a ~400 page book). Not cool. It's basically relevant life history for three random people (ok, not so random. It's an author, his editor, and a critic) and then an incident that might have comprised the entire book if this was any other author.
Comments: I don't think this was up to his usual standards. If you read my summary you can probably understand my reason. On the other hand, it could be that the back of the book biased me into thinking the four sections of the book were connected beyond having some of the same characters. Then again, this book seemed to be trying to be a connected whole as opposed to the others which are more a series of short stories that share a location and some characters/families. It's like he was trying to get into a new style buy wasn't willing to abandon his old style completely. Not sure if his fictional author was doing some of that. Also, I have to wonder what the fictional critic would have to say about Michener. Probably nothing good.
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