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The Drifters
The Drifters: A Novel | James A. Michener
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In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the worldas well as the hedonistic pursuit of drugs and pleasure that collapses all around them. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the private world of these unforgettable characters, exposing their innermost desires with remarkable candor and infinite compassion. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for The Drifters A blockbuster of a book . . . full of surprise, drama, and fascination.Philadelphia Bulletin Rings with authentic detail and clearly descriptive sights and smells . . . The Drifters is to the generation gap what The Source was to Israel.Publishers Weekly [The Drifters] conveys a sense of a new time, a new generation.Chicago Sun-Times Michener has slid open a window on the world of the dropout and has spared no effort to make the reader aware of this new world.The Salt Lake Tribune
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Susanita
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📘The Drifters
🖊Fiona Davis
🎥Doctor Zhivago ✳️
🎤John Denver
🎶The Dance (Garth Brooks)
✳️Note I did NOT name it as my favorite book 🤣 #manicmonday #letterD

CBee There will always be something about Omar Sharif 😍 2y
Susanita @CBee Yes! 2y
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Susanita
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My favorite Michener for #letterd of the #alphabetgame

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing 2y
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Deblovestoread
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1) Tagged
2) Anita Diamanté‘s
3) Double Indemnity
4) Death Cab for Cutie
5) Don‘t Fear the Reaper

JoScho Thanks for playing 🤗💚 5y
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Susanita
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Characters from Norway, Israel, and the US find themselves in Torremolinos, where I once had a weird pizza with cold ham on it, and from there they travel to various #farflung places. It's one of my favorite Michener books. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

EvieBee Sounds fascinating! 8y
ApoptyGina69 One of my all time FAVES!!! I've recommended it to many a traveler over the years. One day I'll get to Spain myself. 💖📚 8y
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MLRio
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MLRio
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This is 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 juxtaposition between him and his band of adolescent vagabonds is actually what makes the book such a fascinating read. Michener renders the universal ideological crisis of the 60s/70s in vivid, precise, and often hilarious prose. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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MLRio
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Youth is truth.

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MLRio
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Yet another great reading spot. #Greece #Chios #travel #desitnationreading

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MLRio
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Chicken Little was right. How terribly apt for 2016.

BookishMarginalia 😳😱 8y
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MLRio
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I. Love. This. Book. 😆 #favorites #theDrifters #JamesMichener

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MLRio
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Sat down to read in an ancient theatre for two hours this afternoon. It was marvelous. #reading #travel #Greece #Argos

LauraBeth I want to be where you are! 😀 8y
MLRio @LauraBeth It's not a super popular tourist destination, but really that's what makes it so great. 8y
Eyelit 💚💚💚 8y
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Caterina I've stood at the top of that very theater! Some friends and I traveled around Greece during our spring break while studying abroad in Rome in the spring. We had a hotel in Argos for a night or two! I love your pics, they're bringing back good memories. 😃 8y
Caterina (It's actually one of my favorites, because it's so much more worn than the famous ones. It looks like it's returning to nature, which is fitting, since the Greeks used the natural landscape to create their theaters to an extent.) 8y
MLRio It's also remarkable how intact the acoustics still are! If you stand at center stage and know how to project, you can make the hills ring :) 8y
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MLRio
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Not a half bad place to sit with a book. #NationalGarden #Athens #Greece

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MLRio
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Just happened to pick a great book for gallivanting around Greece with no laptop. 👌🏻📚 #books #travel #currentlyreading #bookstagram #JamesMichener #theDrifters

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Pleasantly astonished that a man was self-aware enough to write this. #JamesMichener #theDrifters #YES

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MLRio
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Only a hundred pages in but so far I'm in love with this book. #theDrifters #JamesMichener #currentlyreading

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MLRio
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Look, I know science is important, but nobody ever sticks up for the humanities. So you tell 'em, Joe. #humanities #Michener #theDrifters #quotes

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MLRio
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Yeah, I brought a book to a concert. So what. Quit judging me. #nerdalert #bookstagram #michener

quirkyreader I have heard good things about this one. How is it so far? 8y
MLRio @quirkyreader I'm only about 30 pages in but so far it's really captivating. 8y
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One of my favorite books this year! I can't wait to travel to southern Spain because of the great detail in this book. Great character development.

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BaconTheBooks
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Favorite quote from one of my favorite books. #truth

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