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The Time Before This (Paperback)

by Nicholas Monsarrat (Author)
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  • Paperback: 106 pages
  • Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (18 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842321595
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842321591
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 0.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,220,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Edna O'Brien, Daily Express

In his wry and timely novel Monsarrat unfolds a tremendous theme with gripping excitement


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On the icy slopes of the great ice-mountain of Bylot Island, set against the metallic blue of the Canadian Arctic sky, Shepherd has a vision of the world as it used to be, before the human race was weakened by stupidity and greed. Peter Benton, the young journalist to whom Shepherd tells his story, is dramatically snapped out of his cozy cynicism and indolent denial of responsibility, to face a dreadful reality. He discovers that he can no longer take a back-seat in the rapid self-destruction of the world, and is forced to make a momentous decision.
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4.0 out of 5 stars food for thought in times of climate change, 22 Feb 2009
By Ernst Meyer (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Between 1962 and 1965 four short Monsarrat novels were published under the working title 'Signs of the Times'. Each of them was succinctly dramatizing an issue, either personal or general, weighing upon men's minds in the mid-Twentieth Century.

"The time before this" is the first part of the series. Had Monsarrat been focusing on the story and fleshed it out more the result would have been a thrilling science fiction drama. However, he wanted to bring a message across, and this curious book with little more than 100 pages was (and is) enough to do just that.

Against the backdrop of men's possible annihilation by a nuclear conflict, this book would have been perceived as grave and alarming when first published.

Monsarrat writes that "we may be growing too proud and too greedy for the world's good". In times of a global financial crisis, climate change and global warming, "The time before this" is just as valid and important as it would have been in the 1960s. I couldn't put this book down. Only four stars though because I would have loved to read more.
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