On the Beach On the Beach

On the Beach

    • 4.2 • 122 Ratings
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Publisher Description

"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, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
February 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Pinto & me ,

On the beach

Have read the book and seen the movie, amazing story stays with you long after finishing the book.
A classic.

BIG RED 98 ,

Amazing

I had to read this book for my señor year in high school and I just loved it. Rather than being a normal book with a plot and climax it focused on trying to emotionally show you why we as humans must learn to live together; and how are unimportant feuds will bring the end to all of human creations and culture. *Spoiler Alert* Rather than end with a typical story book ending Shute wants the reader to know that if this happens there will be no saving us it will be our inevitable demise. Great book!

Zelenogrand ,

Worth the read

I’m glad I read it, quite different from the film. Well worth the read.

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