- Runaway teenagers, Social conditions, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Young adult fiction
In Cuba nuclear tensions are at breaking point. The end of the whole world could be just days away. At the heart of it all is Laura Mann. She's on the run, hunted by strange forces fighting over the future of humanity. Laura is the H-Bomb Girl. And Laura is about to discover that her own life is at stake - in ways she could never have imagined.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- FABER AND FABER, Faber and Faber, Night Shade Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571232796
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