Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, … - Dorothy Parker

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No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Dorothy Parker

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

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