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"A good, old-fashioned, sink-your-teeth-into-it story...Suspenseful." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER James Michener turns the creation and publication of a novel into an extroardinary and exciting experience as he renders believable the intriguing personalities who are the parents to its birth: a... read more
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"This Tuesday morning, 3 October 1990, at half after ten, I typed the last sentence of the novel that will complete what the critics have taken to calling 'The Grenzler Octet,' as if I had planned from the beginning to write eight interrelated books on the same theme."
Table of Contents edit
I: The Writer—Lukas Yoder
II: The Editor—Yvonne Marmelle
III: The Critic—Karl Streibert
IV: The Reader—Jane Garland
Authors & Contributors edit
- James A. Michener (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 1991
ISBN: 978-0436279744
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 1991
ISBN: 978-0436279744
Page Count: 464
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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