On The Beach
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Damage on jacket spine
A landmark work of post-apocalyptic fiction, On the Beach chronicles the final months of a group of survivors in Melbourne, Australia, as a deadly cloud of nuclear radiation slowly drifts southward following a catastrophic global war. Nevil Shute presents an intimate and profoundly human portrait of ordinary people — an American submarine commander, an Australian naval officer, a young woman, and a scientist — each grappling with the certainty of their impending deaths in their own deeply personal ways. The tone is restrained and quietly devastating, eschewing melodrama in favor of an aching realism that makes the novel all the more powerful. Shute illustrates how people cling to routine, hope, and connection even when all rational basis for hope has been extinguished, asking urgent moral questions about war, responsibility, and the fragility of civilization. First published in 1957, it remains one of the most haunting and morally serious works of twentieth-century fiction, a novel whose warning has only grown more resonant with time.
Author: Nevil Shute
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Heinemann
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Damage on jacket spine
A landmark work of post-apocalyptic fiction, On the Beach chronicles the final months of a group of survivors in Melbourne, Australia, as a deadly cloud of nuclear radiation slowly drifts southward following a catastrophic global war. Nevil Shute presents an intimate and profoundly human portrait of ordinary people — an American submarine commander, an Australian naval officer, a young woman, and a scientist — each grappling with the certainty of their impending deaths in their own deeply personal ways. The tone is restrained and quietly devastating, eschewing melodrama in favor of an aching realism that makes the novel all the more powerful. Shute illustrates how people cling to routine, hope, and connection even when all rational basis for hope has been extinguished, asking urgent moral questions about war, responsibility, and the fragility of civilization. First published in 1957, it remains one of the most haunting and morally serious works of twentieth-century fiction, a novel whose warning has only grown more resonant with time.