Fiction / American Studies
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Level
7 Level 7
is the diary of Officer X-127, 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 five hundred 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. “Eventually, I believe, Roshwald’s
remorseless apocalypse will be recognized as one of the masterpieces
of anti-utopian literature.”
Mordecai Roshwald (1921–2015) was a professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide. Please see this obituary published in the Washington Post. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) |
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