On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
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"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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1564
- Title
- On the Beach
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- Illustrator
- None
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition, 1st printing
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Post-Apocolyptic Dystopia Nuclear Warfare Destruction Cold War
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