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" On the beach / "
Nevil Shute.
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BL
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1032584
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b786954
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| Main Entry
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Shute, Nevil,1899-1960.
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| Title & Author
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On the beach /\ Nevil Shute.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Ballantine books ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Ballantine Books,, 1974, ©1957.
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278 pages ;; 18 cm
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| ISBN
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0345311485
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: 9780345311481
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0345297326
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1957.
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| Abstract
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A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North. 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. 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.
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Nuclear warfare, Fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Nuclear warfare.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.912
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| LC Classification
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PR6027.O54O5x 1974
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