Pincher Martin - Softcover

Golding, William

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ISBN 10: 0156718332 ISBN 13: 9780156718332

Publisher: Harcourt, 1984

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Extreme physical deprivation and psychological isolation slowly erode the survival instincts of a sailor shipwrecked on a huge rock in the Atlantic

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Book Description:

Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, publishing in April 2015

About the Author:

William Golding (1911-1993) was a Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author, best known for his first novel, Lord of the Flies, published originally in 1954 and adapted for film in 1963. His other works include The Inheritors (1955), Pincher Martin (1956), The Spire (1964), Rites of Passage (1980), The Double Tongue (published posthumously in 1995) a now rare volume, Poems (1934) and the essay collections The Hot Gates and A Moving Target.

Golding was educated at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Before his writing career, Golding was a schoolmaster. He was also a keen actor, musician and small-boat sailor.

In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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