An edition of A town like Alice (1950)

A town like Alice

1st Ballantine Books ed.
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An edition of A town like Alice (1950)

A town like Alice

1st Ballantine Books ed.
  • 4.20 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 61 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance. A Town Like Alice tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life.

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pages
279

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Edition Availability
Cover of: A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)
A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)
February 9, 2010, Vintage
Paperback
Cover of: A town like Alice
A town like Alice
1991, Ballantine Books
- 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: A town like Alice
A town like Alice
1983, Published jointly by Wm. Heinemann and Secker and Warburg
in English - A Landmark ed.
Cover of: A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice
November 12, 1981, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The legacy
The legacy
1963, Ballantine
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PZ3.N83 To 1976, PR6027.O54 To 1976

The Physical Object

Pagination
279 p. ;
Number of pages
279

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24222263M
Internet Archive
townlikealice00shut
ISBN 10
0345353749
ISBN 13
9780345353740
OCLC/WorldCat
32983500

Work Description

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.

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JAMES MACFADDEN died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point.
added anonymously.

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