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A town like Alice / [electronic resource] Nevil Shute.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, [1991], c1950.Edition: 1st Ballantine Books edDescription: 279 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0345353749 :
  • 9780345353740
Uniform titles:
  • Legacy
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823
LOC classification:
  • PZ3.N83 To 1976 PR6027.O54
Online resources: Summary: A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance. 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.
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"Originally published as "The legacy""

A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance. 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.

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