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On the Beach Author: A world-wide nuclear war -- launched by accident -- leaves only a handful of survivors. They hope for a miracle, but they know they are doomed. How does a person live when he knows he is going to die? Some carry on as usual... a few destroy themselves in a last mad grasp at life. A shocker. "The most important novel of the atomic age." - Washing... more »
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I had seen this movie years ago, & it was recently aired again (I think because of the "end of the world predictions") recently. I enjoyed it again & thought I would like to read it. Radiation from a senseless war has spread all over the world except for Australia, & the people there await their deaths, coping in different ways. I liked the book very much & it did not seem that "dated" although it is set in the late 1950s, I believe.
Much better then the movie!
I remember when this book, and then the movie came out. Chilling!
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