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FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (1)* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Constant Image, Davenport (7) 4. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (4) 5. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (6) 6. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (3) 7. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa 8. Clea, Durrell (5) 9. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York, Gallico 10. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (9) NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (3) 4. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (4) 5. Act One, Hart...
...Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute...
...Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute...
...late Nevil Shute took characters of clay and left them shod with steel. Keith Stewart, hero of Shute's posthumous novel, Trustee from the Toolroom, is unassuming to the point of extinction. Keith is past his prime, hard up, pastily pale and running a little to fat. In an ugly mortgaged home in the London suburb of West Baling, he shares teatime monosyllables with his dumpily comfortable wife Katie. Yet Keith is not a nonentity...
...technique will win the reader's respect. In the end, though, it is neither tropic adventures nor miniature marvels that generate the fundamental emotion in Trustee from the Toolroom. That comes from giving a small man a big word-trust-to live up to. It was Nevil Shute's enduring conviction that "the job's the thing,'' and that a job well done makes and proclaims...