The Signature of All Things: A Novel Monsters James Michener is something rare

James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work

and enlists Jake to prevent the 11/22/1963 Dallas assassination of American President John F

At stake were not only the reputations of two historians

An old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality told by one of America's most acclaimed novelists

and not only had it nearly gotten him killed

The Signature of All Things: A Novel Monsters James Michener is something rareA glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker