Tomorrow!
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00OPJW8S4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 325 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Philip Wylie is well known for his exciting plots and carefully drawn characters and settings, and also for his daring subject matter, some of which was very personal.” —The New York Times
"Outstanding--and Irrevocable" according to Mallory Heart Reviews. REVIEW TOMORROW! By Philip WylieTOMORROW! was originally published in 1952. I didn't read it then, but I read it beginning to end several years later, as a child. I have seldom been so terrified by a book: for years I could not bear the sound of a jet passing overhead. As I remember from a perspective of 50 years, the seminal books before adulthood were Tomorrow! and Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic treasure, A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ (another classic I . "Well worth reading, but somewhat dated" according to David W. Griffin. I find Wylie a little variable in quality, but I liked this one. The characters were a little too stereotypical -- the valiant police lieutenant, the dedicated CD man, the fearless editor, the panicy population, etc., but it was still an entertaining read. There were some attitudes of the 50s here that didn't ring true today about african americans and communists, but it was tolerable.The dated part was that this was a "survivable" nuclear war due to the small. A good book in its genre. I thought this was a good story, well constructed and it flows well. It represents a genre that produced a number of books and films of its era. It stands along with such work as Failsafe, Alas Babylon and Threads. Like The Day After it describes the horror of nuclear war but offers hope as opposed to Threads which was so graphic and dismal in its projections of the post war world that it was banned in the UK.
As the winter holidays approach, two young lovers share their dreams for the future, a corrupt bank officer fears the exposure of his crimes, and a wealthy matron, concerned only with status and prestige, wonders how she can ensure a marriage between her daughter and the scion of one of the city’s most important families. Some are prepared to face the unthinkable; some refuse to believe it could ever happen. A nation’s worst nightmare is made palpably real, seen through the eyes of a diverse group of ordinary citizens in two adjacent Great Plains metropolises. Wylie brings this holocaust to life with blood-chilling detail in his extraordinary science fiction classic whose power to shock and terrify is as strong as ever more than fifty years after its original release. But on Christmas Day, when a terrible fire lights up the sky, all these petty human concerns become meaningless. An unthinkable tomorrow is on the horizon. A chilling what if? tale of nuclear apocalypse in the American heartland Philip Wylie’s gripping parable Tomorrow! describes a time in America when doomsday threatens to dawn at any moment. For the citizens of the neighboring Midwest cities of Green Prairie and River City, today marks the end of everything. And the destruction and horror wrought