- Survival, Survival skills, Fiction, Nuclear warfare
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- First published
- July 2005
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Constable, Bantam
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780397000975
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“In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida, it was said that sending a message by Western Union was the same as broadcasting it over the combined networks.”
Pat Frank was the pen name of the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank. Frank's best known work is the 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon. His other books include Mr. Adam, Hold Back the Night, and Forbidden Area. - Wikipedia
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