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Nevil Shute, Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer (London: Heinemann, 1954), p.
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Nevil Shute' was the pseudonym used by British-born Australian aerospace engineer and novelist
Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960).
This reviewer must be typical of so many lovers of popular novels (and one would never use the words 'trashy' or 'pulp') in that
Nevil Shute's No Highway was the first story to impact on one's young adult awareness of what novels can do -- their particular magic.
The acclaimed novel by
Nevil Shute was out of print.
For the literary-minded, the way is open for students to read John Hersey's Hiroshima or
Nevil Shute's On the Beach.
Sheppard's inclusion of international authors, including Robertson Davies or
Nevil Shute, as well as a number of works in translation from France, Italy or Japan, is to be commended, as is his listing of a number of feminist works.
Though Aldous Huxley,
Nevil Shute, Italo Calvino, George Orwell, and Vladimir Nabokov did impressive work, they were little emulated.
Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise is ambitious in its coverage (which effectively extends from Everyman to Beloved) and capacious in its range (even
Nevil Shute rates a mention).
Nevil Shute in his autobiography Slide Rule deals quite throughly with what went on between the two design teams.
1960: Author
Nevil Shute, best known for A Town Like Alice, died in Melbourne, Australia, where he had emigrated in 1950.
Favorite books that connected us to the war include The Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, about English civilians living on Guernsey Island under German occupation; A Town Like Alice by
Nevil Shute, in which an Aussie and an Englishwoman fall in love while prisoners of war in Malaya; Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, an amazing true story about a GI who survives a crash in the Pacific and a brutal Japanese POW camp; and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, in which Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps.