A Town Like Alice
by SHUTE, Nevil
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
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.
Reviews
Engaging read, hard to put down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019370
- Title
- A Town Like Alice
- Author
- SHUTE, Nevil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nevil Shute;
Terms of Sale
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