A Town Like Alice
by Shute, Nevil
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0099530260
- ISBN 13
- 9780099530268
- Seller
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
A Town Like Alice is a novel by the Australian author Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it into 'a town like Alice'. It was first published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
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Engaging read, hard to put down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alexander's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 080527
- Title
- A Town Like Alice
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0099530260
- ISBN 13
- 9780099530268
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 368
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¼ - 9¼
- Keywords
- A Town Like Alice; Shute, Nevil General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Literature;
- X weight
- 400 g
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