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Novelist Nick Hornby referred to The Beach as "a Lord of the Flies for Generation X", and the Sunday Oregonian called it "Generation X's first great novel". The Washington Post wrote that it is "a furiously intelligent first novel" and "a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can only day-dream about."
The Drifters is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener, published in 1971 by Random House. [1] The novel follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique.
Driven by the sudden onset of puberty, Louis and Zoe go to the cove and have sex. Meanwhile, the others determine that the beach is aging them at a rate of a year every half-hour, and that some force induces unconsciousness in those who attempt to escape; Henry speculates that the young woman drowned after losing consciousness at this barrier.
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous.
A coming-of-age story that follows Andrew Jackson Libby, a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability but meager education. [2] Finding few opportunities on Earth, he joins the Cosmic Construction Corps, a future military-led version of the US Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps employing out-of-work youth to construct the infrastructure needed to colonize the Solar System.
Susan Burkman, an interviewer from the New York Times, stated the novel was a “moving, evocative book” and “if I worked at a bookstore, I’d be hand-selling it to customers." [ 3 ] Reviewer Abigail Packard greatly enjoyed the novel and firmly stated, “ This One Summer is a feat of graphic storytelling,” and praised cousins Mariko and ...
There is only one reference to a 'sandcastle' in the book. From Iris Murdoch's The Sandcastle, Chapter Five: "I can recall, as a child, seeing pictures in English children's books of boys and girls playing on the sand and making sandcastles – and I tried to play on my sand. But a Mediterranean beach is not a place for playing on.
The novel is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of each protagonist. Here's To Us follows Arthur and Ben's chance reunion in New York several years after the ending of the first book. [1] What If It's Us marked the first time Albertalli and Silvera collaborated after being friends for many years.