In the Wet - Hardcover

Shute, Nevil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884113183 ISBN 13: 9780884113188

Publisher: Amereon Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

As a background to this story, I have tried to picture the relations of the countries in the British Commonwealth as they may be thirty years from now. No man can see into the future, but unless somebody makes a guess from time to time and publishes it to stimulate discussion it seems to me that we are drifting in the dark, not knowing where we want to go or how to get there. The Monarch is the one strong link that holds the countries of the Commonwealth together; without that link they would soon fall apart. If any forecast of Commonwealth relations in thirty years’ time is to be made, it is vacant and sterile unless also it contains a forecast of the position of the Monarch, and gives warning of the strains and tensions that in thirty years may come upon that very human link. Since personal strains and tensions must inevitably affect the future of the Commonwealth, it seems to me that fiction is the most suitable medium in which to make this forecast. Fiction deals with people and their difficulties and, more than that, nobody takes a novelist too seriously. The puppets born of his imagination walk their little stage for our amusement, and if we find that their creator is impertinent his errors of taste do not sway the world.

About this title

Review:

"Shute is an honest exciting adventure writer who blends narrative gift with a fine power of description" (John Betjeman)

"Exhibits his talents at their provocative best" (New York Times)

"That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly" (H.E. Bates)

Book Description:

A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amereon Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0884113183
• ISBN 13: 9780884113188
• Binding: Hardcover