Ward Moore ~7 hr read

A door-to-door salesman's miracle lawn compound works far too well, and a patch of Bermuda grass begins a green, unstoppable conquest of the entire Earth.

Ward Moore's 1947 novel is a savage, satirical post-apocalyptic classic, funny and horrifying by turns as vegetation devours civilization. Sharp, mordant, unforgettable. Read it for a brilliant ecological catastrophe comedy, where the end of the world arrives one blade of grass at a time.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).