The Drifters Summary
James A. Michener

The Drifters Summary

Whereas a typical Michener novel focuses on a specific place from prehistory to the present, The Drifters is unique to the Michener canon in the sense that it focuses on a specific period, the late 1960s. As the tide suggests, the novel's setting changes constantly as Michener offers glimpses of various places as they existed at an isolated moment in history.

If Michener's primary intention in the novel is to capture the mood...

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