The Beach

by Alex Garland

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Title	The Beach
Author	Alex Garland
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Your review	It's not exactly high art, but it could be considered as an entrant within the larger genre of anti-Utopian literature. Like other works in that genre, this book makes the points that Utopias are doomed to failure, and that people, when freed from social restraints, will tend to revert towards barabarism. These points are essentially conservative, and Garland's not the first person to make them, but they do make for good dramatic tension, perhaps the book's prime strength.
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Publication	Riverhead Trade (1998), Paperback, 448 pages
Publication date	1998
ISBN	1573226521 / 9781573226523
LC classification 1	PR6057.A639B4
Dewey	823.914
Subjects	Adventure stories Adventure stories. gsafd Asia, Southeastern › Fiction Beaches › Asia, Southeastern › Fiction Beaches › Southeast Asia › Fiction Southeast Asia › Fiction Thailand › Fiction
Primary language eng	English
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Date finished	2008-07-13
Summary 1	The Beach by Alex Garland (1998)
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