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Pied Piper
by Nevil Shute
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330103997
- ISBN 13
- 9780330103992
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Pan Books, UK, 1977. 12th Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 253 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1977. 12th Printing. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkreig. John Howard, a 70-year-old Englishman vacationing in France, cuts shorts his tour and heads for home. He agrees to take two children with him. But war closes in. Trains fail, roads clog with refugees. And if things were not difficult enough, other children join in Howard's little band. At last they reach the coast and find not deliverance but desperation. The old Englishman's greatest test lies ahead of him. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Action & Adventure; ISBN: 0330103997. ISBN/EAN: 9780330103992. Inventory No: 23020168.. 9780330103992
Synopsis
Young Adult Novel, set in Europe in 1940. 70-year-old Englishman goes fishing in the French mountains, near the Swiss border. To amuse two children he's met, he makes a whistle from a twig of hazel bush [hence, the book's title]. When Germany invades France, he decides to go back to England, and is asked to take the children with him. Along the way, he finds another child, and another, and another, leading his young outcasts through shell-fire and sacrifice, in a search of safe haven from a world at war. A poignant sub-plot shows why this man had left England in perilous times, and how he found in France a woman who healed this poignancy (and, in the process, her own personal sorrow). The story ends in a surprisingly gratifying way. The dangers of death and war remain in the reader's heart, along with the resounding echoes of courage, honesty, love. Mostly love. Book-reviewers called it "the best story of World War II" *[Cincinnati Enquirer]* ... "piles up dramatic force -- the work of a master storyteller" *[New York Times]* ... "gripping and tender" *[New York Herold Tribune]* ... "moving, heart-warming -- (Nevil Shute's) greatest novel" *[Book Buyer's Guide]* ... "He write (in this touching book) about human beings and ordinary human emotions in a way that makes the reading of each page an unalloyed pleasure" *[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]* ...... [comments by: Billy Jack]
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23020168
- Title
- Pied Piper
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 12th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0330103997
- ISBN 13
- 9780330103992
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Pied Piper
- Bookseller catalogs
- Action & Adventure; Fiction;
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