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The day the world went away Paperback – January 1, 1973

by Anne E. Schraff (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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Thirteen teen-agers experience a period of terror when their school is mysteriously closed, their parents disappear, and a gang of youths plans to build a new world for losers.
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  1. Print length
    138 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Doubleday
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1973
  5. ISBN-10
    0385004559
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0385004558
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday (January 1, 1973)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385004559
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385004558
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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Todd A. Sundell
3.0 out of 5 stars well-written but contains a dangerous message
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013
Although this book came out in the 70s, I never read it until I was about 16 in the early 80s. The book was well-written and moved at a decent pace. Just to present the plot here: this is a story about a group of white supremacists who take over a town. In the book the author had both an American Indian and an African-American character that were so nobly portrayed as if they were morally superior to the supremacist white boys. After finishing the book I felt the pangs of white guilt--as if white people were responsible for all the evil in the world especially that carried out upon minorities. However, I've grown in the past thirty years or so. I realized that all people can commit crimes against humanity--including blacks and American Indians. Maybe the author touched on this in some of her other stories but it certainly wasn't present here in this one. This is a story that fosters moral superiority--as if the minorities are all noble savages and all the whites are the vilest creation that ever existed. Here is the danger of moral superiority: moral superiority leads to arrogance, and arrogance leads to dehumanization. Dehumanization leads to destruction. Look at the Holocaust. The author should realize this if she hasn't already. Well-written and entertaining, yet containing a very dangerous message. When all is said and done blacks, American Indians and others are just as capable of destruction as any white man.
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ann heeney
5.0 out of 5 stars I am the blonde on the cover
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013
Quite honestly, I have not read the book. However, I do have a copy of it because I am the blonde on the cover. I am now 65 years old, but worked for Xerox Education Publications in Middletown, Conn. at the time the paperback was published. I was telling my daughter about it and she googled the title and when it appeared we could not believe it. I may actually read it now. Had to give it a 5 star rating. Would love to know how the others on the cover are doing. I think the young man on my right is Seth.
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zer0pink
5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent, chilling read
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2003
Simply stated, this book is excellent. i read this first as a small boy in the late eighites and have serched for it ever since. i found it again only once, in high school a good 10 years later, and found none of the books terrifying potency diminished over the course fo time, perhaps because it speaks so clearly to one of my greatest personal fears (and that of so many others): the fear of being completly, utterly and inexplicably alone. After all, what WOULD you do fi you got up and found everyone you knew ahd simply vanished overnight, leaving no trace whatsoever? The stories protagonists, a group of high school teens, are forced to face just this delimma, and the seemingly preposterous, and yet horrifying possibility that they are indeed the last people left alive.
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