Pilgrimage: A Memoir of Poland and Rome
Categories: Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs


James A. Michener
memoir
travel

ISBN-13: 978-0878579105
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0878579109
Publisher: Rodale Press
Print length: 119 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1990
subtitle: Hardcover – October 1, 1990
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review: Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Michener's memoir of a recent trip to Poland and Rome is as witless as a postcard, its greeting something like "Having a wonderful time, you won't believe the fuss being made over me." The visit to Poland--Michener's 14th--was occasioned by a government invitation to receive a friendship medal as the author of the novel Poland . Traveling with an entourage of nine, which included industrialist Edward Piszek and former baseball star Stan Musial, Polish-Americans, Michener seems to have been so feted as to make him lose his well-known modesty: " Poland has accomplished so much good that it constitutes a kind of national treasure, whose merit could be duplicated by nothing else." The last stop on the pilgrimage was to clerical Rome, with Michener, a Quaker, receiving communion in the Pope's chapel from "John Pawel Drugi" himself. In recalling his heady trip, the author expresses only one fittingly wry comment: "This is rather out of proportion. All I did was write a book." Photos. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Unwelcome there after publication of his novel Poland ( LJ 9/1/83), Michener was invited to visit the post-glasnost nation in 1988 for a surprise presentation of its prestigious Medal of Honor. On the way home, he and his party stopped in Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul II. This slight, heavily illustrated account of his trip is about Michener, not the places he visited; as the author himself says, "I wanted to show how exceedingly full the life of a writer can be as he moves well into his ninth decade." For avid Michener fans and comprehensive Michener collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/90. -Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.