![]() Much of the story about her captivity is revealed through an impossibly long conversation she has with the man who presumably narrates the entire novel. "A town like Alice" alludes to the attempts of a woman, who had survived capture and detention by Japanese in Malaya, to turn a small town in Australia into a prosperous community like Alice Springs. Some of Shute's most popular stories - like A Town Like Alice (1950) - are set in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia. A well-known novelist by World War II, he served the final months of the war as a correspondent in Burma.Īfter the war, Shute moved from Britain to Australia but seems to have remained a British national - though some Australians call him an Australian novelist. ![]() ![]() Nevil Shute (1899-1960), born and educated in England, served as a soldier in World War I then became an aeronautical engineer and a writer. A Town Like Alice Surviving war in its wake By William WetherallĢ79 pages, paperback Japanese translation ![]()
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