A Gift Upon The Shore

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: First Edition

Description: 375 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying pandemic lays waste to the remaining human population. But one of the few survivors, Mary Hope, is determined to see that some spark of culture survives. Together with her beloved friend Rachel, she sets out to preserve the precious knowledge of the past by saving every book she can in what may very well be the last library - the only record of a world that has perished. But Mary and Rachel are not alone. They are forced to share their small subsistence farm, Amarna, with the Flock, a small band of survivors with fanatical beliefs. And one of those beliefs is that books are blasphemous and should be destroyed.

ISBN: 9780345363411