Pastoral (Shute novel)

Pastoral is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute.[1] It was first published in 1944 by Heinemann. Its theme is that even in the midst of war, and among warriors, everyday life, such as romance, will continue.[2]

First US edition (William Morrow)

Synopsis

Pastoral is a romance set on an English airbase which revolves around the pilot and crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber, their interest in fishing, and the pilot's developing relationship with a young WAAF signals officer.

Reception

After its release the book received reviews from The Washington Post and The New York Times,[3] the latter of which wrote that the book was "an excellent story and its writer grows in sublety and skill with each succeeding novel".[4]

gollark: Alternatively, we somehow train everyone in dealing with cognitive biases, if that's actually possible?
gollark: This is very* practical.
gollark: No, that would be ridiculous. Instead, we force them to speak only through speech synthesis, with their picture obscured, and run the text through a neural network which bland-ifies it and possibly removes some stupid things.
gollark: That sounds like one of those "requires general intelligence" problems.
gollark: Some of the particularly !!FUN!! ones are in probability and uncertainty, which humans are especially awful at.

References
  1. Hampson, John (1944). "The Ballad and the Source. By Rosamond Lehmann. The Innovator. By John Brett Robey. Pastoral. By Nevil Shute (Book Review)". The London Spectator.
  2. Gosling, Jonathan; Villiers, Peter (2012-11-14). Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villains and Absent Friends. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 87–89. ISBN 9781137272744.
  3. "Pastoral. By Nevil Shute. Morrow. $2.50 (review)". The Washington Post (subscription required). September 3, 1944. ProQuest 151699411.
  4. MALLET, ISABELLE (August 27, 1944). "An Idyl of Wartime England". The New York Times (subscription required). ProQuest 106792668.


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