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The Drought

โœ Scribed by Ballard, J. G.


Publisher
Liveright Pub
Year
2012
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
177 KB
Edition
Reprint
Category
Fiction
ISBN
087140401X

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โœฆ Synopsis


An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.


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