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| Date Created: | 2010-09-08 |
| Date Modified: | 2010-09-08 |
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| Author: | Nevil Shute |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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| Amazon Link: | Buy from Amazon.com |
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| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
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| Publication Year: | 1983 |
| ISBN#: | 0-345-31148-5 |
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| Pages: | 288 |
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"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....