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Violence
A lot
The nuclear war itself; violence in the lawless aftermath; deaths of characters
Language
Barely any
Clean language; period-appropriate prose
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The sustained psychological weight of rebuilding society after civilization has ended; the horror of the initial attack
What this book is about
Randy Bragg, a lawyer in a small Florida town, receives a coded message from his brother warning that nuclear war is coming—and within days, the bombs fall. Pat Frank's 1959 novel was one of the first post-nuclear-war survival stories, following the Fort Repose community as it rebuilds civilization from scratch.
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Nuclear war depicted; deaths of secondary characters throughout the aftermath
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