Pincher Martin: Faber Modern Classics

Name: Pincher Martin: Faber Modern Classics
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571322749
Price: 14.44 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): William Golding

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece. While most readers are aware of William Golding as the writer of Lord of the Flies, it is Pincher Martin, his third novel, that speaks most directly to contemporary readers. This shocking, unusual bullet of a book is the definitive survival novel and has an ending that is guaranteed to leave you reeling. See more

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Weight: 220g
Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
Publication Date: 02 Apr 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571322749

About William Golding

William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College Oxford. Before becoming a writer he was an actor small-boat sailor musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies his first novel was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk