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| Original Title: | The Drifters |
| ISBN: | 0449213536 (ISBN13: 9780449213537) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
James A. Michener
Paperback | Pages: 768 pages Rating: 4.04 | 6855 Users | 399 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Drifters |
| Author | : | James A. Michener |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 768 pages |
| Published | : | October 12th 1986 by Fawcett Books (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Travel. Novels. Adventure. Classics |
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In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in Spain, Marrakech, or Mozambique, and exposes the naked nerve ends with shocking candor and infinite compassion."A superior, picaresque novel...and a revealing mirror held up to contemporary society."
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Ratings: 4.04 From 6855 Users | 399 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Drifters
This is a book about a group of young people who decide to exile themselves from their home countries and end up in Torremolinos, Spain. They start a journey of self-discovery that takes them to Portugal, Pamplona, Mozambique and Morocco. Their lives are observed by "Uncle" Gerorge, a businessman from Geneva, who ends up involved in each of their stories. Being from a different generation, he tries to understand their casual attitudes towards life, music, and drugs. A great read, but allow aMy 1st Michener and let me tell you about it as I wipe my mouth off with a napkin after having a fine meal and push my chair back...Sigh... what a journey this was. It's 1969. The world is changing. The drifters are a new generation of young adults who are unhappy with their current lives and where they live- Joe, avoiding the draft for the vietnam war; Britta, wanting to escape the tunnel of darkness that stays for months in Norway; Monica, the child who grew up in Vwanda, fighting against the
I first read this book when I was probably a college freshman, and remember how much I enjoyed it. How I wish I could have talked with my former self to see why I found it so memorable. The second time around I was struck by how ridiculous the narrator sounded, and how cartoonish the other characters were.
This is still one of my favorite Michener books. I read this book for the first time in about 6th or 7th grade and it shaped the way I saw the world and looking back, I think this book is what started my desire to travel. And to read even better books. To be more open-minded. To love all music. It's a great read.
I'm just getting into Michener. I understand that this book is different from his other novels. I found the characterizations most enjoyable and how he used them to place competing worldviews in discussion seemed realistic and unforced. It's a long book, but the way he used the first half to introduce the characters and then put them together int he second part allowed me to put it down and pick it up again according to my leisure. I felt that I really cared for these figures and they made me
This is the kind of book that some people will love and some people will abandon after forty pages. I just happen to belong to the former category. I think what's so brilliant about it is actually the same thing that a lot of less enthusiastic reviewers have expressed their distaste for: namely, that it's a story about six young people coming of age in a volatile decade narrated by a sixty-year-old man. It could be easy to get hung up on Mr. Fairbanks' old-fashioned prejudices, but I think the
This book explores the culture, politics, views on the Vietnam Nam war, changes in music, sexual freedom, racism, and drugs in late 1960's and early 1970's. The Drifters was published in 1972. The narrator is a 61 year old man, Fairbanks, who feels close to six young people who travel through Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique during the Vietnam Nam era. There are three female 'drifters': one an American university student who worked on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and then
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