On the Beach Mass market paperback - 1983 - 50699th Edition
by Shute, Nevil
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- Title On the Beach
- Author Shute, Nevil
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition number 50699th
- Edition 50699
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
- Date 1983
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0345311485I5N00
- ISBN 9780345311481 / 0345311485
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.87 x 4.17 x 0.77 in (17.45 x 10.59 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 780
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, War stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"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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First line
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PETER HOLMES of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn.