Tales of the South Pacific

Oceanica

Framed as a collection of loosely-connected short stories, narrated from a single perspectivce, the author weaves together themes of love, loss, and struggle with a lucid and sometimes technical commentary on the American war effort in the Pacific theater. His characters are both intensely human and larger than life, and the developing theme throughout the book is one of titanic and often tragic effors that contribute to the betterment of individual people (and to our society as a whole). It is the oldest story in our collective history: anecdotes and tales of adventure, set against an exotic background, grounded in our own perspective. The "Tales" are above all inspiring--and stand apart from any American literature written since the inception of our nation.

Rafael