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Unless you request otherwise, I will wrap the book in plastic wrap to help protect it from the elements, create a custom-made cardboard box to ship it in, and send via Media Mail with Delivery Confirmation tracking. Generally sent the same day payment arrives. The boards are in good condition with forward lean to the binding. Former library book with the usual markings and dust jacket protected inside plastic sleeve. From First Printing of the stated First Edition by Ballantine Books with 1990 copyright. It is also about remaining human under the worst of conditions, and the humanizing influence of books and art, even when their existence is threatened.Ī Gift Upon the Shore by M. Driven by rich and fully drawn characters, this is a powerful, compelling story of a friendship that survives the devastation, only to face a more difficult test from the gift found upon the shore. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.A Gift Upon the Shore is a lyrical, haunting story of two women, an artist and a writer, surviving in a dark near future. Wren's (the Phoenix trilogy) post-nuclear world rings true, as do her compelling depictions of the subsistence-level daily life-the triumphs, the losses and the desperation.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. A bitter struggle develops between Mary and a strong-willed young Arkite for the minds of the children, particularly the boy destined to lead the next generation. Years later, when plague strikes the Arkites, Mary agrees to take in the few survivors on condition that she be allowed to educate the children as she sees fit. Mary marries and briefly joins the Arkites but leaves after the leader calls Rachel a witch. Down the coast is another set of survivors, the Arkites, a fundamentalist group that denies all knowledge not contained in the Bible. As they struggle through the Long Winter following the End, as the nuclear disaster is simply called, their desolation is succeeded by a determination to collect and preserve for a new civilization the great books of Western culture. Writer Mary Hope and Rachel Morrow, a painter, eke out a meager existence at a farm on the Oregon coast. Unsparing but ultimately hopeful, this elegiac novel, set in the near future, traces the first generations to survive nuclear war and ensuing plagues.

A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren