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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,Continue
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 288 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0345311485
- ISBN-13: 9780345311481
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Pub date: Sep 12, 1983
- Dimensions: 1097 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
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| 9780345311481 | Mass Market Paperback | $6.99 | $6.29 | bn.com |
| $6.99 | -- | The Book Depository | ||
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MidnightReverie 
'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute
As a teenager in the 1980s, I grew up in the shadow of the Cold War nuclear arms race. At the time there was a very real fear that Armageddon was just around the corner. It frightened me so much I still remember writing English essays about nuclear w ... (read full critics)