Egypt bombed England and the United States. This book shows how regular folks react to a cataclysm of world-ending proportions.
Once I fell into the quiet rhythm of this novel, I began to understand its power. On the Beach may be the quietest post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read.Īt first, I was perplexed with how much of the book’s attention is centered on domestic affairs in suburban Melbourne. One of their close friends, Moira Davidson, is an unattached young woman who they set up with Commander Towers. He works closely with Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes, an Australian Naval Officer serving at liaison on the USS Scorpion.
He has a wife and kids in Mystic, Connecticut and he holds onto the fantasy of their continued survival like a talisman. The main character is Commander Dwight Towers, a U.S. If you pick up the book expecting Mad Max, you will be disappointed, as On the Beach may be the quietest post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read. In recent decades, the post-apocalyptic milieu has introduced zombie hordes ( The Walking Dead ), baby-eating highwaymen ( The Road ), and slave-driving warlords ( Mad Max ). Published in 1957 by William Morrow (reprinted by Vintage International in 2010), the novel chronicles the last eight months in the lives of a cast of characters living in Melbourne, Australia after World War III has decimated life on most of the planet. On the Beach is one of several post-apocalyptic novels that came out in the wake of the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during a time when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was reaching fever pitch.
If half the world was destroyed by atomic war and a massive wall of radioactive dust was headed your way, how would you spend your last few months? This is the premise of Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic classic On the Beach. Written in 1957 by British-Australian author Nevil Shute (1899-1960), “On the Beach” is a post-apocalyptic novel, which details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne after a preceding nuclear war and the subsequent arrival of deadly radiation: The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963, after World War III has devastated most of the populated world. In what follows he takes a close look at On The Beach By Nevil Shute. He is the editor of Manzano Mountain Review and co-host of Point Blank, a crime fiction podcast. Justin Bendell has previously published short fiction with Mystery Tribune.
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