The Beach (edit title)

Jason C edited the characters of The Beach 3 weeks ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Beach Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Alex Garland: (Primary None)
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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Beach Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alex Garland: (Primary Author)
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Timothy Gray approved Punxsutawney Paul’s request to combine 22 books, including The Beach, Friday, August 28 2009.

Punxsutawney Paul submitted a request to combine 22 books, including The Beach, Sunday, August 2 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Beach Saturday, August 1 2009.

• The Khao San Road, Bangkok--first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden. Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck--the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man--and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents. Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach is a look at a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.

Timothy Gray approved Mariel’s request to change the title of The Beach Wednesday, July 29 2009.

Mariel changed the title of The Beach Thursday, July 23 2009.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Beach Friday, July 17 2009.

• The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.