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The Beach
Alex Garland
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Description for The Beach
Paperback. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 31. Weight in Grams: 324.
A 20th anniversary edition of this million copy bestseller, with a new introduction by John Niven: a classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241976562
SKU
V9780241976562
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About Alex Garland
Alex Garland was born in London in 1970. He is the author of two novels, The Beach, The Tesseract and an illustrated novella, The Coma, in collaboration with his father. He has also written screenplays for films including 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd. In 2015, Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina.
Reviews for The Beach
Precise and speedy prose, with good old-fashioned romantic adventure spiced up with deadpan authorial irony
Guardian
Garland has written a powerful and frighteningly believable novel
Company
An exceptional first novel...An action novel that provokes subtle responses, The Beach takes in ideas about man's inevitable progress from noble savage to social breakdown (and) the related tradition of nature versus art
The Times Literary Supplement
Alex Garland is writing a brand new kind of adventure novel. His style is dangerously simple yet altogether captivating
Douglas Rushkoff A highly confident debut...this incisive novel may well come to be regarded as a defining text in the history of imaginative travel writing
Daily Telegraph
Garland's prose is stunningly lucid. Addictive and compelling
Spectator
Winningly compulsive, brilliantly conceived
Q
A mesmerising, knuckle-clenching read
Maxim
Lord of the Flies and The Magus lurk at the roots of this novel, but Garland reshapes them with panache into something terrifyingly new
Mail on Sunday
A white-knuckle ride into the heart of darkness
Sunday Times
A gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw
The Times
Fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever
Nick Hornby
Guardian
Garland has written a powerful and frighteningly believable novel
Company
An exceptional first novel...An action novel that provokes subtle responses, The Beach takes in ideas about man's inevitable progress from noble savage to social breakdown (and) the related tradition of nature versus art
The Times Literary Supplement
Alex Garland is writing a brand new kind of adventure novel. His style is dangerously simple yet altogether captivating
Douglas Rushkoff A highly confident debut...this incisive novel may well come to be regarded as a defining text in the history of imaginative travel writing
Daily Telegraph
Garland's prose is stunningly lucid. Addictive and compelling
Spectator
Winningly compulsive, brilliantly conceived
Q
A mesmerising, knuckle-clenching read
Maxim
Lord of the Flies and The Magus lurk at the roots of this novel, but Garland reshapes them with panache into something terrifyingly new
Mail on Sunday
A white-knuckle ride into the heart of darkness
Sunday Times
A gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw
The Times
Fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever
Nick Hornby