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Author Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960.

Title A town like Alice / Nevil Shute.

Edition First Vintage International edition.
Publication Info. New York : Vintage International, 2010.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1597448~S1
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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 edition" first published in slightly different form in Gr. Britain by Vintage Books. -- Title page 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.
Prisoners of war -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
Genre War stories.
Historical fiction.
Added Author Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. Legacy.
ISBN 9780307474001 (pbk.)
0307474003 (pbk.)
Standard No. 40PGB
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