"Michener's first brought him fame and a Pulitzer prize, a memorable series of interlacing short stories set in the wartime Pacific. In the mid fourties, which technically eliminates it from this list."
"Not Michner, but I hope with a slight flavour of his work. The South China Sea in 1951. A soldier copes with an uncertain peacetime future and a disastrous entanglement with a precocious schoolgirl."
"Again not quite the fifties (1949.) A bildungsroman, or coming of age novel, which is partly an autobiography of the author. Set in Pennsylvania, much closer to home than the exotic South Pacific."
"I hope the spirit of Mr. Michener will forgive me if I slip in a pice of Future History, a style he never tried, with my second novel, "Zorn," set not in the East, but the South of France."
"Pub. 1953. Early fifties, & the USA became involved in the Korean War, and Michener - with the horrors of the Second World War not far behind him - told of the hopes and fears of this war's combatants"
"What the hell, why not this one too, though published in 1965? A bit clunky in parts, but none the less an entertaining story of Israel's troubled history, conquest after conquest, up to modern times."
