Summer Day's Dream (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783190515)

I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it."

Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order - an American, a Russian and an Indian - who have devastating plans that will end their new peaceful way of life forever...

Author: J. B. Priestley
ISBN-10: 1783190515
ISBN-13: 9781783190515
Publisher: Oberon Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2014
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.50d

About the Author
J.B. Priestley was born in 1894 in Bradford, Yorkshire. He was an author, novelist, playwright, essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter, social commentator and man of letters. His plays dominated the London stage from the 1930s to the 1950s with such classics as Dangerous Corner, Eden End, Laburnum Grove, Cornelius, I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways, When We Are Married, Johnson Over Jordan, They Came to a City, An Inspector Calls, The Linden Tree and The Glass Cage. His many novels include The Good Companions, Angel Pavement, Bright Day and Lost Empires. During the Second World War, he also gained a new reputation as a broadcaster and social commentator. He died in 1984.