Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. 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.
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Weight: 195g
Dimensions: 130 x 195mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571298501
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
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