| A Town Like Alice Contributor(s): Shute, Nevil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307474003 ISBN-13: 9780307474001 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 Annotation: "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance." HARPER'S 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.... "From the Paperback edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010277718 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.58 lbs) 368 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 59830 Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean's search for Joe 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. |