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Original Title:	On the Beach
ISBN:	1842322761 (ISBN13: 9781842322765)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dwight Towers, Moira Davidson, Peter Holmes, Mary Holmes, John Osborne
Setting:	Australia Melbourne, Victoria(Australia)

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After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.

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Title	:	On the Beach
Author	:	Nevil Shute
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	October 31st 2002 by House of Stratus (first published July 1957)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Classics. Dystopia. Cultural. Australia

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This really is not a good book. It's a combination between an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel where everyone just sits around having double brandies all day (but with no sex) and the Plague(but with no gory details.) The premise, an atomic holocaust has obliterated the northern hemisphere and all of Australia awaits a radioactive cloud that is coming to kill everyone on earth in 6 month of time. The whole book is just a count down in which you get to know some of the most boring and two dimensional

Reminded me of The Sun Also Rises. Sassy dame. Excessive drinking. Fishing.Except it's way more interesting because everyone is about to die in a few months from radiation poisoning! YEAH!! Plus the sassy dame is funnier, nicer, and drinks even more!! I know, I know. Hemingway and all that. But it's my review and I can compare this book to some classic if I want to. Anyway I don't like Hemingway. Please take that as saying more about me and my literary idiocy than it says about Hemingway and

This is a tricky book to review without spoilers, there is basically only one incident that drives the entire book, and that happens off the page before the book begins, and that event means that a certain thing is going to happen, to everybody, the problem is that this certain thing will happen to everyone anyway (sorry if that comes as a spoiler to you, but it does) so from a literary point of view the author either has to find some new or particular meaning or convince us that this is

it's the most pleasant apocalypse ever!there is war! there are bombs! and everyone in the southern hemisphere knows the rest of the world is dead dead dead and they are just waiting for the radiation to drift downwards where they will succumb to vomiting and diarrhea and weakness and eventual death. let me repeat: this is known. and so what do they do to prepare themselves? not a whole lot. they buy some presents for children they know are already dead in other parts of the world (yes, this

This really is not a good book. It's a combination between an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel where everyone just sits around having double brandies all day (but with no sex) and the Plague(but with no gory details.) The premise, an atomic holocaust has obliterated the northern hemisphere and all of Australia awaits a radioactive cloud that is coming to kill everyone on earth in 6 month of time. The whole book is just a count down in which you get to know some of the most boring and two dimensional

"Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this," he said. The population of a small town in Australia goes very, very gently into that good night as they wait for a cloud of nuclear fallout to reach them. " . . . no wind does blow right into the Southern Hemisphere from the Northern Hemisphere. If it did we'd all be dead right now." "I wish we were," she said bitterly. "It's like waiting to be hung." "Maybe it is. Or maybe it's a period of grace." For the most part, everyone goes about

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