Nevil Shute's On the Beach is a strange story. It's horri...

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is a strange story. It's horrifying, depressing, but also fascinating. Taking place a few months after a catastrophic nuclear war that spread a lethal quantity of radioactive cobalt dust through the atmosphere, the book follows the last year or so of five characters living in the south end of Australia, as the deadly cloud slowly makes its way to them.

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