Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of thirty-six, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a sailor since he joined up direct from school at the beginning of the war. This is not only the story of his struggles and adventures when he tries to find some way of earning his living; it is the ...
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Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of thirty-six, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a sailor since he joined up direct from school at the beginning of the war. This is not only the story of his struggles and adventures when he tries to find some way of earning his living; it is the story of his difficulty in adjusting himself to an unfamiliar civilian world. Monica Dickens's novel is the story of all such men in any of the services who find themselves so rudely thrust into the ordinary life of their country which, though they have served unselfishly, they find they are ill-equipped to live in. Written with the lighter humorous touch of some of her earlier books, it is a sympathetic presentation of the human side of one of those mass adjustments forced on society by the changing nature of the world and its affairs. Man Overboard was first published in 1958.
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Add this copy of Man Overboard to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Scrolls Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stanley, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1959 by Coward McCann.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book New York: Coward McCann, 1959. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean rust color cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, pages are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 270 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has tiny chips at base of spine, a few short closed edge tears, small surface scuff at upper spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Fiction.
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A hardback volume in Good condition, slight sunning to spine, interior very clean. No dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own). Are you outside UK? Then unless you arrange shipping 'Via Alibris' we WILL cancel your order; this is due to the derisory shipping allowance that Alibris make to sellers for overseas orders.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st edition, 8vo, 270pp, generally a bit dusty with a faded patch foot of spine commensurate with snagged fold in DJ o/w G+ Copy in sl age-tanned G+ DJ that is lightly worn, and a little chipped and torn about the base of spine.
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1958, Michael Joseph
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Michael Joseph
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1958
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English
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