This novel takes you right into the heart of the _new_ flood country,
the Northeast United States which had generally been free of hurricanes
and attendant floods. Now disaster has struck, more than once--terrible
and grim.
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Although this novel will give you an accurate and brilliantly
vivid picture of what it's like to live through a flood, even more
importantly it will show you what the people are like who fought the
catastrophe and how those who survived are still fighting. In the
persons of Starkman the burgess, Groff the dynamic young executive,
Sharon the shrewd opportunist, Mrs. Goudeket, the resort owner, and
others, you will meet and understand the varying human elements that
the flood unleashed and intensified. Through it all you will sense a
growing feeling of pride--that despite the selfishness of some, the
people of the town met the terrible onslaught with courage and a sense
of mutual help.
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Already well known for their superb science fiction, Frederik Pohl and
C. M. Kornbluth demonstrate here their equal power in the realistic
contemporary novel.