- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Large type books
Costa de California es un lugar tranquilo en el que los días transcurren con total normalidad hasta que se desata un terremoto en la falla de San Andrés. La ciudad quedará totalmente destruida y desolada. En este contexto, un piloto de helicóptero de rescate sólo tiene un objetivo: encontrar a su hija. Con su helicóptero sobrevolará la zona del desastre e intentará ayudar a aquellas personas con problemas que necesitan ser salvadas
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Alistair MacLean
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Guild Pub., Círculo de Lectores, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780385231527
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Alistair MacLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a minister. He spent much of his childhood in Daviot, Scotland. His native language was Scottish Gaelic. During World War II he served with the Royal Navy and was released in 1946. After the war, he studied English at the University of Glasgow, and he began writing short stories for extra income. He graduated in 1953 and became a a school teacher in Rutherglen. In 1954 he won a fiction competition and Collins Publishing asked him for a novel. He submitted HMS Ulysses, drawn from his own war experiences, and it was published in 1955. It was very successful and MacLean became a full-time writer. In the 1960s, he published two novels un
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