Nevil Shute

A Town Like Alice

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Produktbeschreibung

This classic novel is a heart-rending story of human fortitude set in the jungles of Malaya during the Japanese occupation, where a group of European women and children struggles to survive on a forced march.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780307474001
• ISBN-10: 0307474003
• Artikelnr.: 27407067

Autorenporträt

NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In his spare time he began writing and he published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death in 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957).

Rezensionen

This direct, simply told story is about honest, dogged virtues, at least as redolent of its era as street parties or 'We'll Meet Again' The Times