Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)

Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)

by Mordecai Roshwald (Author)

Synopsis

Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the Push Buttons, a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for 500 years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 30 Apr 2004

ISBN 10: 0299200647
ISBN 13: 9780299200640

Media Reviews

Eventually, I believe, Roshwald's remorseless apocalypse will be recognized as one of the masterpieces of anti-utopian literature. --H. Bruce Franklin


Eventually, I believe, Roshwald s remorseless apocalypse will be recognized as one of the masterpieces of anti-utopian literature. H. Bruce Franklin


In some ways this story gives the most realistic picture of nuclear war that I have read in any work of fiction. Linus Pauling


Eventually, I believe, Roshwald s remorseless apocalypse will be recognized as one of the masterpieces of anti-utopian literature. H. Bruce Franklin


In some ways this story gives the most realistic picture of nuclear war that I have read in any work of fiction. Linus Pauling

Author Bio
Mordecai Roshwald is Professor Emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, where he taught for twenty-five years, and a visiting professor at leading Israeli, U.S., and European universities.