![]() The story opens in the Poland of Lech Walesa and Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski. Michener is now 76 and has written many novels. ''Poland'' repeats the formula - but with changes in shape and attitude that may derive from his doleful subject or may signal an erosion of optimism. Michener gratifies their curiosity and is a pleasure to read. And it calls for good and bad guys (both real and imagined) to hold the whole works together. The formula calls for experts, vast research, travel to faraway places and fraternizing with locals. It delivers everywhere - Hawaii, Africa, Afghanistan, America, Israel, even outer space. Michener goes on writing them as if his life depended on it. ![]() ![]() Michener's fat books are - ''not really novels and not really history, not genuine art nor awful kitsch,'' a critic wrote in Com mentary magazine before pronouncing them ''docudramas'' - Mr. WHILE the arbiters of letters try to figure out what James A. ![]()
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