Pastoralby Nevil Shute | |
List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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Category: |
"Fiction - Adventure" |
Pages: | 246 |
Year of Publication: | 1944 |
Date Read: | 02/14/1993 |
Notes: | Peter Marshall was a bomber pilot and Gervase Robertson a WAAF on his station. They fell in love, but Gervase hesitated. In those precarious days it was hard to distinguish between shadow and substance. Against the background of English countryside, we meet the men and women of the flying station, bound together by the intimacy and trust of their fifty-odd missions over enemy territory. Vivid war writing is here, and spontaneous chuckling humor as well. And, of course, this being a Nevil Shute book, the flying scenes are magnificent. COMMENTS — Nevil Shute has a way with a book. He can describe the most ordinary events in the life of the most ordinary people and make you care. He wrote 23 novels. Among the best are Trustee from the Toolroom, No Highway and A Town Like Alice. |
My Rating: | 10 |