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In the Wet (Vintage International) by Shute, Nevil is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the Wet (Vintage International) about?
It is the wet season in the Australian outback. Drunk and delirious, an old ex-pilot known as “Pisspot Stevie” lies dying in a remote cabin in the Queensland bush. When a priest named Roger Hargreaves comes upon him, Stevie is smoking opium to relieve the pain of his last moments. The priest listens as Stevie, in an opium-fueled haze, begins to describe a very different life he once lived—not in the past, but decades in the future, as a mixed-race aviator who finds love and glory in service to t
Who reads In the Wet (Vintage International)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 1953
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299001565
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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