Summary
Nevil Shute’s gripping story of a Melbourne reeling in the wake of nuclear war finds a new home and a new look, as Text publishes this beloved Australian classic in a handsome hardback.
“Fishing boats lay at anchor and they cruised around these, hailing, and examining them through the periscope. They learned nothing, save for the inference that when the end had come the people had died tidily.”
Set in Melbourne following a catastrophic war in the northern hemisphere, Nevil Shu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922268321 |
| Author: | Nevil Shute |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 218mm x 44mm |
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Critics Review
‘On the Beach played an important role in raising awareness about the threat of nuclear war. We stared into the abyss and then stepped back from the brink.’ * Guardian *‘The rerelease has got an essay at the front from by Gideon Haigh, which immediately makes it worthwhile.’ * Jock Serong *
About The Author
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute was one of the most successful novelists of the twentieth century. He was born in London in 1899, studied at Oxford and became an aeronautical engineer before turning to fiction. He joined the Royal Navy during World War II. After the war Shute migrated to Australia, where he died in 1960 having written more than twenty books, the best known of which are A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
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