Publication
Pan Books, c1961
Collection
Status
Available
Description
Stephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. He finds a job working as an aircraft mechanic, hoping to make his fortune. In Pilotage, Stephen's young navigator Pete Dennison is struggling with exactly the same problem. These two early novels draw on Nevil Shute's own experiences as a young engineer.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Doubler
If not his first, certainly a very early one, I think I read somewhere that it was autoboigraphical. Interesting.
LibraryThing member HarryMacDonald
In my experience, aviation fans (a bit like railfans) tend to read with more zeal than critical acumen, at-least in regards to narrative style and technique. That said, I consider this novel to be not an example of Shute at his best, even though Shute on an off-day, could beat most other modern
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novelists in cards and spades. My problem with this particular opus is that the characters aren't very interesting, and sometimes the pronoun-references and dialogue left me in doubt as to who was speaking or being spoken-about. Was Shute too big a shot to be edited? Even so, a decent read, if by no means a great one. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
0330239856 / 9780330239851
Original publication date
1961 (written 1923)