Nevil Shute

Requiem for a Wren

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Produktbeschreibung

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780099530237
• ISBN-10: 0099530236
• Artikelnr.: 26544003

Autorenporträt

Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 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 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).