Round the Bend
by Shute, Nevil (Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.)
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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Davenport, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
1965 mass market paperback has moderate shelfwear and page tanning, with creased spine and no writing in it.
Synopsis
NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 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 January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sarah's Books & Media, Etc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 491
- Title
- Round the Bend
- Author
- Shute, Nevil (Pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway.)
- Format/Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ballantine,
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
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- Mass Market
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