So Disdained - Couverture souple

Shute, Nevil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184232294X ISBN 13 : 9781842322949

Editeur : House of Stratus, 2000

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Nevil Shute Norway 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).

Quatrième de couverture

'That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly' H.E. Bates

When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.

See Also: Lonely Road

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Stratus
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184232294X
• ISBN 13: 9781842322949
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible