Review
Angry, eloquent...a terrific story. (New York TIMES )
Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim. (CHICAGO Tribune )
Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim. (CHICAGO Tribune )
Book Description
The brilliant and provocative classic of the post-nuclear age, ranking with 1984 and Brave New World in its visionary power
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Product Description
The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead. All knowledge was gone. In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A hand-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound pastrami can kraut six bagels - bring home for Emma.
About the Author
Walter Miller Jr served as a radio operator and gunner in the US Army Air Corps during the second world war. Subsequently he studied engineering before turning to writing. Also author of The View from the Stars and Canditionally Human.
