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In the Wet

Shute, Nevil
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099530046
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
258 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Shute, Nevil

Biographical note

Nevil 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).

In the Wet

Shute, Nevil
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
Shute, Nevil
Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk
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Shute is an honest exciting adventure writer who blends narrative gift with a fine power of description

- John Betjeman,

Exhibits his talents at their provocative best

New York Times

That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly

- H.E. Bates,

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
Les mer
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
Les mer
Shute is an honest exciting adventure writer who blends narrative gift with a fine power of description
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

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Shute is an honest exciting adventure writer who blends narrative gift with a fine power of description

- John Betjeman,

Exhibits his talents at their provocative best

New York Times

That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly

- H.E. Bates,

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
Les mer
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
Les mer
Shute is an honest exciting adventure writer who blends narrative gift with a fine power of description
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099530046
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
258 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Shute, Nevil

Biographical note

Nevil 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).

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