The Wild Shore - Softcover

Robinson, Kim

3.74

3,820 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441888747 ISBN 13: 9780441888740

Publisher: Ace, 1985

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A nuclear strike has wiped out civilization as we know it in the USA, reducing the population to isolated enclaves living in the ruins and the wilderness the disaster has left behind. It's a chance to start anew. It's an exciting opportunity for 17-year-old Henry to make America great again.

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Review:

"There's a fresh wind blowing in "The Wild Shore."" --Ursula K. Le Guin

"Part "Huck Finn" and part "Our Town...."A well-written, engaging rite of passage." --"Publishers Weekly"

"Beautifully written...with a vivid depth rarely encountered in science fiction." --"The Washington Post"

There's a fresh wind blowing in "The Wild Shore." "Ursula K. Le Guin"

Part "Huck Finn" and part "Our Town...."A well-written, engaging rite of passage. "Publishers Weekly"

Beautifully written...with a vivid depth rarely encountered in science fiction. "The Washington Post""

"There's a fresh wind blowing in The Wild Shore." --Ursula K. Le Guin

"Part Huck Finn and part Our Town....A well-written, engaging rite of passage." --Publishers Weekly

"Beautifully written...with a vivid depth rarely encountered in science fiction." --The Washington Post

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2047: and for sixty years America has been quarantined after a devastating nuclear attack.

Seventeen-year-old Henry wants to help make America great again. Like it was before all the bombs went off. But for the people of Onofre Valley, on the coast of California, just surviving is challenge enough. Living simply on what the sea and land can provide, they strive to preserve what knowledge and skills they can in a society without mass communications. Then one day the world comes to Henry, in the shape of two men who say they represent the new American resistance. And Henry and his friends are drawn into an adventure that will mark the end of their childhood...

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