Slide

by Gerald A. Browne

Book Overview

From the author of the best selling " 11 Harrowhouse"-a major new novel of interlocking destinies, sudden calamity, survival and triumph. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877950997
• ISBN13: 9780877950998
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Arbor House
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sliding into Home

Don't write this book off just yet. It's still a good read, even though 30 years old (1976). A quote on the paperback cover from the Boston Globe compared the story to the Towering Inferno, and it is very similar, except that it all happens on the California coast, around Laguna Beach. Days of rain cause a terrible mud slide, knocking a huge market over a seaside cliff with a slew of shoppers still inside. A few of them survive the slide, and the rest of the book explains what it might feel like to be stuck in a cavernous building covered with constantly increasing layers of mud. Luckily, no one had to go to the bathroom, except Warren, who "squeezed it off" over the side of his "island" before he shoots himself in the head. One thing about a book such as this, where the plot calls for a lot of mental imagery, it can be quite difficult to actually envision what the author is writing about. It's a wonder he could envision it himself, but he might have had a scale model. He must have had a small model of the slide scene, with the market tipping and then falling into the mud with the folks inside. It's also hard to envision endless rain today in Southern California: people are far more worried about draughts and "global warming." The "survivors" and non-survivors caught inside the market are interesting, and sometimes deep. Deep in mud, deep in thought, that's how it seems to go in this book. If you can find this book, get it. But don't pay over a dollar for a used copy. It's a fun book and you can reminisce about the old days (1970s) when everything was very, very different (we know now). Diximus.