On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345297326
- ISBN 13
- 9780345297327
- Seller
-
WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Ballantine Books, 1981. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Nevil Shute's most powerful novel-a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication-is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. 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.
Synopsis
"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThey are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009928
- Title
- On the Beach
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 5th or later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0345297326
- ISBN 13
- 9780345297327
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- Unknown
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 278
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...