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On the beach / Nevil Shute ; introduced by Gideon Haigh.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF SHUT	Adult Fiction		Panania .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781922268327 (hardback)
Name	Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 author.
Title	On the beach / Nevil Shute ; introduced by Gideon Haigh.
Published	Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Description	xxxi, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes	Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1957.
Summary	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. Both terrifying and intensely moving, "On the Beach" is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.
Subjects	United States. -- Navy -- Fiction
	Nuclear warfare -- Fiction
	Australia -- Fiction
Genre	Thrillers (Fiction)
Genre	Apocalyptic fiction
Other Names	Haigh, Gideon author of introduction, etc.
Series	Text classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Apocalyptic fiction . Australia -- Fiction . Nuclear warfare -- Fiction . Thrillers (Fiction) . United States. -- Navy -- Fiction . Authors: Haigh, Gideon . Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 . Series: Text classics .