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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nevil ShutePublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Classics Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9780099530053ISBN 10: 0099530058 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 September 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsA story that grips the reader with its quiet veracity, its truth to character, its understanding of the young man of the R.A.F and the nature of their job, of the so much owing so many to so few. The story has pace and excitement, unforced sentiment and wholly unaffected gaiety...Alive, humourous and finely restrained in feeling throughout...fascinating descriptions of Service operations...thrilling and eloquent Times Literary Supplement A admirably good story, full of drama and good humour Evening Standard A good simple story...genuinely moving New Statesman Direct, simple, wholly free from highfalutin nonsense and entirely charming Daily Mail Exciting reading of war on land and in the air kirkus reviews A story that grips the reader with its quiet veracity, its truth to character, its understanding of the young man of the R.A.F and the nature of their job, of the so much owing so many to so few. The story has pace and excitement, unforced sentiment and wholly unaffected gaiety...Alive, humourous and finely restrained in feeling throughout...fascinating descriptions of Service operations...thrilling and eloquent Times Literary Supplement A admirably good story, full of drama and good humour Evening Standard A good simple story...genuinely moving New Statesman Direct, simple, wholly free from highfalutin nonsense and entirely charming Daily Mail Exciting reading of war on land and in the air kirkus reviews Author InformationNevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have 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 on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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