The Beach by Alex Garland

The Beach by Alex Garland

Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest. Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, an island Garden of Eden, hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning, Richard finds a map pinned to his door, and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists. The challenge is irresistible, and Richard sets off on a perilous journey in search of Shangri-La.

Fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever Nick Hornby Lord of the Flies and The Magus lurk at the roots of this novel, but Garland reshapes them with panache into something terrifyingly new Mail on Sunday A gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw The Times

Alex Garland was born in London in 1970. He has written two novels, The Beach (1996), The Tesseract (1998) and an illustrated novella, The Coma (2003), in collaboration with his father. He has also written two screenplays, 28 Days Later (2002) and Sunshine (2007).

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ISBN 13	9780141031774
ISBN 10	0141031778
Title	The Beach
Author	Alex Garland
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2007-07-05
Number of pages	448
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