num_pages: 175
description: The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the bestselling author of 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Super-Cannes'. Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilisation itself begins to crack. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the remnants of mankind struggle for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.
language: English
title: The Drought
titlecomplete: The Drought
characters: Charles Ransom, Philip Jordan, Catherine Austen
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Dystopia, 20th Century, Speculative Fiction, Climate Change, Novels, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 2575
publisher: Penguin Books