A Wrinkle in the Skin

By: John Christopher

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Synopsis: There was a hush at the first shock, a silence that rang in the ears. The noise reached him with the second one, a bellowing that sounded as though the world was being torn from its orbit and sent grinding and slithering through space. From that point,the shocks were successive--lurch and roar, in a hideous phased rhythm... After the earth convulsed, humanity began its slow, inexorable return to barbarism. Amid the eerie, diseased ruins of the cities, across the ravaged landscapes of the countryside, men and women found only pillage, rape, death and nameless cruelty--as they searched for some remnant of the life that had once been. A WRINKLE IN THE SKIN is one of the all-time great novels of natural disaster, a brilliant and horrific portrayal of the reactions of human beings suddenly shocked into a new and brutal struggle for life.