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On the Beach

On the Beach

Shute, Nevil

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0307473996
ISBN13: 9780307473998
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 9 2010
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.53
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nevil Shute's most powerful novel--a bestseller and a post-apocalyptic fiction classic for decades after its 1957 publication--is an unforgettable vision of a dystopian future in the aftermath of World War III.

The most haunting evocation we have of a world...after an atomic war. --The New York Times

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life.

Both terrifying and intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.

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