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Author Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960.

Title A town like Alice / Nevil Shute.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage International, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR6027.O54 T69 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st Vintage International ed.
Description 350 pages ; 21 cm
Note First published serially in two installments in Woman's home companion, N.Y. (Apr. and May 1950). First published in book form as A town like Alice, London: William Heinemann; and as The Legacy, New York: Wm. Morrow, 1950. This "2009 ed." first published in slightly different form in Gr. Britain by Vintage Books. -- T.p. verso.
Summary "A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback."--Cover, p.4.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
World War (1939-1945)
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Women prisoners of war -- Fiction.
Women prisoners of war.
Prisoners of war -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Fiction.
Prisoners of war.
Malaya.
Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction.
Soldiers.
Australia.
Australia -- Fiction.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form War stories.
War fiction.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
Added Author Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. Legacy.
ISBN 9780307474001 (paperback)
0307474003 (paperback)
Standard No. 40PGB