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In the Wet

Nevil Shute author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Sep '09

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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

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...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...

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

ISBN: 9780099530046

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm

Weight: 255g

368 pages