- Arthur Hailey, 1st published in 1979, Adult, Adventure
In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and largest generator explodes.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Arthur Hailey
- First published
- November 1, 1998
- Pages
- 477
- Publisher
- AST, Bantam Books, Doubleday
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- German, English, heb, Russian
- ISBN
- 9783550063008
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Arthur Hailey was born in England and began his writing career while an RAF pilot during the Second World War. After the war he lived and wrote in Canada, becoming a Canadian citizen as well as British; he also lived briefly in the United States. For the past twenty-six years Arthur Hailey and his wife Sheila have made their home in the Bahamas. Hailey's novels have been published in thirty-nine languages; an estimated 160 million copies are in print worldwide. Most of his books have been made into films or TV series.
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