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'The Beach' by Alex Garland - 1998 Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- Collector's Edition, Special Edition, Limited Edition
- IsTextBook
- No
- Vintage
- Yes
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 1990s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Early Edition, Movie Tie-In
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781573226523
- Book Title
- Beach
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Product Information
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden. Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck -- the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man -- and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents. Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland -- both a national bestseller and his debut -- is a highly accomplished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1573226521
ISBN-13
9781573226523
eBay Product ID (ePID)
542774
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beach
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
9625033
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"A book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can only day-dream about. The Beach is ambitious, propulsive fiction." --The Washington Post "What makes The Beach a truly awesome piece of work is Garland's understated, assured depiction of the perils of pop." --The Village Voice " The Beach will astonish readers... Not since reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History has this reader been so impressed and taken with a first novel." --USA Today " The Beach is an awesome first novel that works as an adventure story, an allegory and an explanation for why every human since Adam and Eve has an irresistible impulse to create a perfect world and destroy it. A wonderful adventure and allegory that may be the best novel written by anyone currently younger than 30." --Sunday Oregonian "Alex Garland... has a clear, engaging storytelling style and a vivid imagination. Deftly, he uses real-life travel details--smells, optical effects, quirks of language, social rituals--to keep the reader's disbelief at bay." --The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable.... astonishingly assured.... The Beach is distinguished by Garland's bracingly transparent prose and tells a classic story of generational envy and displacement. A luminous voyage into the dark side of humanity's increasingly tenuous dreams of paradise." --Salon "Generation X meets Lord of the Flies in this ripping good adventure yarn...Garland shows a precociously sure hand in this taut, exotic thriller. For a young author, he knows too well the peril of finding paradise on earth...a skillful first novel about the demise of an earthly paradise." --People "[G]ripping, intelligent and written with a discipline many young writers only grow into." --New York Newsday " The Beach makes for a relevant and fascinating read....an excellent critique of the backpacker phenomenon--its nouveau colonialism and its tragically misdirected idealism." --Time Out "Garland's provocative style--somewhere between Joseph Conrad, Bret Easton Ellis, and Stephen King--creates a modern-day Eden where Nintendo Game-boy, "Apocalypse Now," and a drug-trafficking Thai militia blend seamlessly into the landscape." --Vogue
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
96-025033
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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