In the wet /
by Nevil Shute.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : Morrow, 1953.
- Summary
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It is the wet season in the Australian outback. Drunk and delirious, an old ex-pilot known as "Pisspot Stevie" lies dying in a remote cabin in the Queensland bush. When a priest named Roger Hargreaves comes upon him, Stevie is smoking opium to relieve the pain of his last moments. The priest listens as Stevie, in an opium-fueled haze, begins to describe a very different life he once lived--not in the past, but decades in the future, as a mixed-race aviator who finds love and glory in service to the Queen.
- Note
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Also issued online.
- Physical Description
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339 pages ;
21 cm
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