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Original Title:	Round the Bend
ISBN:	1842322893 (ISBN13: 9781842322895)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tom Cutter, Connie Shaklin, Nadezna
Setting:	Bahrain

Round the Bend

Nevil Shute

Paperback | Pages: 396 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 1208 Users | 113 Reviews

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Title	:	Round the Bend
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 396 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2002 by House of Stratus (first published 1951)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adventure. Religion

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Tom Cutter is in love with airplanes and has been from his boyhood. He can remain in England, an employee in another man's aviation business, or he can set out on his own.

With little more than personal grit and an antique aircraft, Cutter organizes an independent flying service on the Persian Gulf. He sees opportunities everywhere, also dangers.

"In Cutter's growth from provincial conservative to worldly entrepreneur, Shute brings us a fine portrayal of a man willing to accept pain and danger in his search for personal growth." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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Ratings: 4.08 From 1208 Users | 113 Reviews

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An aircraft engineer inadvertently starts a cult that spreads across the Eastern world, with believers travelling thousands of miles to hear him speak of God and engine maintenance.Is Connie, born of a Russian mother and Chinese father and always interested in religion, really round the bend? Is he the prophet who will save the world? Or is he just a good man and efficient engineer?Like most of Nevil Shute's ideas, it's simple, yet wacky, and he narrates the story in a way that keeps you reading

I read Shute's beautiful book A Town Like Alice in 2018 and quickly fell in love. And although this book is wonderful, I didn't love it quite as much as the first. But Shute's prose is cool, simple and spare. He exposes his characters in a way that is quiet, subtle and slightly voyeuristic. I came away from both books feeling like I knew the people on their pages.Round the Bend was written in 1951. It is the fictional autobiography of an airline entrepreneur named Tom Cutter. Tom begins his

First of all, I'd like to say that, had it been available to me to give this novel a 65-70% rating, rather than having to decide between 60 and 80% then that's what I would have done. It's a bold book - all the bolder given its historical context - and in common with all Shute's work its examination of how human beings can live decently, faced with extraordinary circumstances, is thought-provoking and involving. It tells a good story too. Its weakness really lies with a naivety, or overoptimism,

Using multiple rereads as criteria for favorite novelists, Nevil Shute is easily my most liked. Set in the years after WWII, written then, it provides useful perspective on the Middle East. ***5/3/17 - Here's a quote I like : "By John Anderson"Perhaps my favourite of all Shute's novels, "Round the Bend" contains many of his usual elements - aviation, enterprise, a mild love interest, and an unusual story very well told.Tom Cutter got into aviation the hard way before World War II, working his

This is a mesmerizing tale of East meets West. This is the second time I've read this book and I realized during this reading what a fantastic story-teller Mr. Shute was. I highly, highly recommend this book.

This is the fourth book of Nevil Shute that I have read. The three others being Pied Piper, A town like Alice and No Highway. Shute is a wonderful writer and story teller and his books are so intelligent and wise. As in many of his books, this one also revolves around airplanes and the aviation world. It is worth reading this book because it can give the reader an understanding of the world after the 2nd World War. The book was written in 1956 and it is incredible how things have changes in not

Absolutely fascinating... the best rationale of religion as a reason for diligence and pride in one's work, and above all, the tale of a messianic figure who really inspires but never gets swept away by the adulation he commands. But the narrator is no less a hero, for his diligence and openness, which is remarkable for the time he is in... A grand narrative of the changing postwar world and one of the best works of this master story-teller...