Ruined City
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of the Great Depression, Ruined City presents Henry Warren, a wealthy and powerful London banker whose comfortable world collapses around him following a financial scandal — forcing him to confront the moral bankruptcy of his privileged existence. Cast adrift from his former life, Warren turns his attention to Sharples, a derelict shipbuilding town in the north of England where unemployment has gutted an entire community, and embarks on a daring, morally complex scheme to resurrect the town's dying shipyard and restore dignity to its desperate men. Nevil Shute — the pen name of Nevil Shute Norway — brings to this 1938 novel the same meticulous, engineering-minded precision and quiet emotional intelligence that defined his celebrated career. Ruined City is a searching examination of class, conscience, and redemption, set against the stark backdrop of inter-war Britain's industrial decline. Shute's prose is characteristically understated yet deeply affecting, chronicling one man's transformation from moral cowardice to genuine heroism with a subtlety that rewards the patient reader. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a single act of will can redeem a wasted life, this novel offers a quietly devastating answer.
Author: Nevil Shute
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of the Great Depression, Ruined City presents Henry Warren, a wealthy and powerful London banker whose comfortable world collapses around him following a financial scandal — forcing him to confront the moral bankruptcy of his privileged existence. Cast adrift from his former life, Warren turns his attention to Sharples, a derelict shipbuilding town in the north of England where unemployment has gutted an entire community, and embarks on a daring, morally complex scheme to resurrect the town's dying shipyard and restore dignity to its desperate men. Nevil Shute — the pen name of Nevil Shute Norway — brings to this 1938 novel the same meticulous, engineering-minded precision and quiet emotional intelligence that defined his celebrated career. Ruined City is a searching examination of class, conscience, and redemption, set against the stark backdrop of inter-war Britain's industrial decline. Shute's prose is characteristically understated yet deeply affecting, chronicling one man's transformation from moral cowardice to genuine heroism with a subtlety that rewards the patient reader. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a single act of will can redeem a wasted life, this novel offers a quietly devastating answer.