Lonely Road [Hardcover]

Nevil Shute (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2001

A love story between a rich R.N.V.R. officer and a professional dance hostess, set against the background of gun-running at the time of the first Communist menace. First published in 1932 and now reissued.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A novelist of intelligent and engaging quality, deservedly popular…. Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling.” —The Times (London) --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Nevil Shute Norway was born in London and worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. Worried that his reputation as a fiction writer would damage his engineering career, he wrote without using his surname. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. After the war he became a full time author completing a fictionalised account of his war time experience in 'Most Secret'. Moving to Australia in 1949 he based seven of his novels against that background including his most successful title On The Beach. This was subsequently a hugely successful film starring Gregory Peck, Antony Perkins and Ava Gardner and became arguably the major after the bomb movie of all time. Shute became one of the top selling authors of the 50s and 60s with wide appeal to a broad international market attracted by strong story lines which were always meticulously researched.. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: The Paper Tiger (August 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188943924X
• ISBN-13: 978-1889439242
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,148,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In his spare time he began writing and he published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had 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 in 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957).

Customer Reviews

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11 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of Story, September 29, 2007

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J. S. Taber (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lonely Road (Paperback)

I like Nevil Shute's books because the stories do not follow a certain pattern. They are usually about interesting people and their lives. There is none of this modern day gory or sexy description. He makes his characters very human and mostly humane.