Paperback. Condition: Good. (New York Review Books Classics). This work is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear wear. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of Godâs creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of hymns. Abnormal humans are also condemned to destruction - unless they succeed in fleeing to the Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing is reliable and the devil does his work. 200p.