Linda B. reviewed on + 149 more book reviews
Michener is one of my all time favorite writers and I have read almost all of the fiction he wrote.
Poland is another wide ranging historical novel that takes the reader from post WWII into the larger historical periods of Poland's history.
I read a review recently by a reader (not here) who complained that many of the "facts" of Polish history are inaccurately presented in the novel.
I would like to take a moment here to point out to anyone reading this review that James Michener wrote "historical novels" not history books. Michener's great novels (and other historical novels by other major writers) should be looked on as you would a painting. Just as a painting provides the broad stroke of something seen thru the painters' eyes, so should Michener's historical novels be thought of as word pictures as seen thru his eyes.
Poland is another wide ranging historical novel that takes the reader from post WWII into the larger historical periods of Poland's history.
I read a review recently by a reader (not here) who complained that many of the "facts" of Polish history are inaccurately presented in the novel.
I would like to take a moment here to point out to anyone reading this review that James Michener wrote "historical novels" not history books. Michener's great novels (and other historical novels by other major writers) should be looked on as you would a painting. Just as a painting provides the broad stroke of something seen thru the painters' eyes, so should Michener's historical novels be thought of as word pictures as seen thru his eyes.
