num_pages: 280
description: "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 CHRONICLEThey 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....
language: English
title: On the Beach
titlecomplete: On the Beach
characters: Dwight Towers, Peter Holmes, Mary Holmes, Moira Davidson, John Osborne
genres: Classics, Apocalyptic, Australia, Dystopia, Novels, Post Apocalyptic, War, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 43039
places: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
publisher: Ballantine Books