James A. Michener. Stated First Edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. Jacket art by Wendell Minor. Small tear on front cover and browning on from and inside cover. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Random House, 1992. Yellow cloth with purple spine and gold lettering. Book design by Carole Lowenstein. No markings or writing in the book, 625 pp.
The Pulitzer Prize winning author published more than 40 books during his lifetime. The majority of his work turned into epic novels. He didn't start writing though until he was 40 and died in 1997 at age 90.
Michener takes on another big task with Mexico. He wants to cover 1,500 years of Mexican history, from every point of view – Indian, Spanish and American. His main character is a man, Norman Clay, who has Indian, Spanish and American blood in his family’s past. Norman is a photo-journalist for a magazine who is sent to Mexico to write about bullfighting. He started writing the novel in the 1960's and it wasn't published until 1992.
