About the Book: Alas, Babylon
"An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still
driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being
alive."—The New Yorker
The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the
height of the Cold War, and now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper
Perennial.
"Alas, Babylon . . ." With those fateful words, the world as we knew it ended.
When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States,
it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a
nightmare of