Word: tales
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...reason readers won't get a feel for the real Texas is that Michener picked an epic story to tell the state's tale. The characters and the romantic story line hide more about Texas than they reveal. They show the legend and myth, a surprising amount of which is true, but they obscure the more subtle, underlying truths about the history of Texas and Texans...
...REALM OF historical fiction, few novels could be closer to fiction than James A. Michener's Texas This new novel by an author known for his site-specific tales, is little more than a Texas sized data base with a soap opera fairy tale grafted...
Hence, the moral of Mobil's tale clearly emerges: "Forcing American companies to withdraw would end their constructive role." The constructive role of corporations in bringing about reform, of course, lies in their ability to pressure the government. By running ads in South African newspapers urging equal citizenship, they let the Botha regime know that they are mad as hell about apartheid and won't take it any longer. Well, at least not for too much longer...
When he told the tale of his year of graveyard shifts in Midnights, he delivered a fascinating collection of true but unbelievable tales: your basic Yalie-turned-officer-of-the-peace stuff. The particular charm of the book was not only its simple and personal prose but the cultural clash it revealed as the outsider struggled to serve and protect the inbred and stern townspeople...
This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...