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On the Beach

By Nevil Shute

By Nevil Shute

By Nevil Shute

By Nevil Shute

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Feb 09, 2010 | ISBN 9780307473998

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Feb 09, 2010 | ISBN 9780307476982

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    About On the Beach

    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.

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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 CHRONICLE
    They 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….

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    About Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In… More about Nevil Shute

    About Nevil Shute

    Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In… More about Nevil Shute

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 09, 2010 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307473998

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 09, 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307476982
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    Praise

    “The most haunting evocation we have of a world dying of radiation after an atomic war.” —The New York Times 
     
    “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.”  —San Francisco Chronicle

    “A novelist of intelligent and engaging quality, deservedly popular. . . . Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling.” —The Times (London)

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