Lonely Road
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| Author | Nevil Shute |
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| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel,Thriller |
| Publisher | House of Stratus |
| Publication date | 1932 |
| Pages | 282 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-84232-261-3 |
This article is about the British novel by Nevil Shute. See Snacky Chan for the song by American rapper Roy Kim.
Lonely Road is a novel by British author, Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1932 by William Heinemann. It was also produced as a movie, released in the US as Scotland Yard Commands in 1936, starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper.
Malcolm Stevenson finds himself mixed up in what purports to be an international Communist plot involving smuggling guns and has to battle politics and unfamiliar ideologies. The twist is that the communists have been fooled by a right-wing conspiracy into providing weapons that will be discovered before an election, swinging the vote to the conservative party. What makes this book unique is the remarkable experimental writing style adopted for this book, unlike any of Shute's others. Multiple flashbacks, some within others, fascinating to unravel. It can be quite confusing to suddenly find that what you are reading is not actually happening, but it makes the whole book a very unusual one.
[edit] Author's Note, from the 1951 edition
"This was the third of my books to be published, in 1932, when I was thirty-three years old. It took me about a year to write it, in the evenings after a day spent on other work, and it was written twice throughfrom start to finish. I was still obsessed with police action as a source of drama, but with the growth of experience in writing, the character studies and the love story appear to have smothered the plot a bit, and these aspecects of the book now seem to be the best.
The first chapter was quite frankly an experiment, and one that pleases me still. It was a dangerous experiment, however, for a young writer to make in the first pages of a book, for it defeated a good many readers who might have enjoyed the story if they had been able to read on. In spite of this the book did moderately well in this country and in America. In 1936 a film was made of it at the Ealing Studios, starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper.
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