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...Hollywood. Reason: after paying Socialist Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about ?3,000. To save a smitch of his earnings on Legacy and future books, Novelist Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) concluded he simply would have...
...refugee author and his family will be accompanied by Shute's faithful private secretary, the Shute gardener and handyman, and his four-seater Percival-Proctor monoplane ("To fly your own plane is the ideal way for an author to travel"). Says Shute: "I want my two daughters to finish their education in Australia. At the end of five years, they can decide if they want to stay in that prosperous but somewhat uncultured country or return to this bleak but cultured and traditional land." Even down under, Shute estimates, he would be able to pocket only a puny...
...LEGACY (308 pp.)-Nevil Shute-Morrow...
British Author Nevil Shute is a natural-born storyteller with a gift for inventing probable incident and for creating authentic background. Six fast, easy-to-read books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about...
...time she has done with her husband's district, it is in the grip of an industrial revival, soil conservation is breaking out all over, the cattle trade is expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean...