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Title: On the Beach- a disturbing prediction
Review: As a child of the 50s and 60s, I found the book very credible.The most powerful thing in this novel is its immediacy to our own lives.We exist in an age when nuclear warfare is an immediate possibility.I was touched by the captain's insistence on thinking of his family in the present tense, and refusal of the woman, Moira's advances, in deference to his obviously married state (despite his awareness of the reality, the captain continues to think of them as he left them).As a person who, as a child in the 60s, learned to jump under my desk in school, during air-raid drills, I was profoundly affected by this story.Furthermore, I was very moved by this author's vision of how people might hold on to hope, at the same time that they accept, on various levels, the inevitability of destruction.I have read thousands of books in my lifetime, most of which I recall only slightly. I will never forget this book.
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