Rainbow and the Rose - Softcover

Shute, Nevil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345322517 ISBN 13: 9780345322517

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1985

Synopsis

The life and loves of Johnny Pascoe, a veteran pilot, unfolds as he lies dying after a crash landing on the Tasmanian coast, and Ronnie Clarke, Pascoe's former pupil, and young Peggy Dawson attempt to rescue him

About this title

About the Author:

Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).

Review:

"That supreme storyteller, Nevil Shute" * The Times * "Shute was a brilliant storyteller and terrific example for any writer" -- Gerald Seymour * Express * "Nevil Shute made me yearn for a faithful, plodding, Shute-type of man. I imagined us trekking across the Australian outback, finding a run-down hamlet, and then transforming it together until death or flood parted us" -- Sue Townshed * The Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0345322517
• ISBN 13: 9780345322517
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback