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Book Review of On the Beach

On the Beach
On the Beach
Author: Nevil Shute
Book Type: Paperback
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From the back cover:

A wold-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 how 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. if you read only one book a year, this should be the one."-Washing Post