On the Beach
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3.8
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Nevil Shute
"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....
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Author
Nevil Shute
Pages
320
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2010-02-09
ISBN
0307476987 9780307476982
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"You know a book is good when it evokes emotion and stands the test of time, and Nevil Shute's "On the Beach" does both."
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"Brilliant! "
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"This is another depressing book, although that might depend on if you think mankind is a positive or negative part of the world. The world would most certainly recover after mankind was gone and be a better place in my opinion. Also if the nuclear fallout didn't kill everyone all that smoking would finish off the survivors."
John Woakes