Free Fall - Softcover

Golding, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571371639 ISBN 13: 9780571371631

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2022

Synopsis

'Marvellous.' A.S. Byatt
'Astonishing.' John Gray
'Luminous.' Rose Tremain

I could take whichever I would of these paths.

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself.

About this title

About the Author

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 turned down 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571371639
• ISBN 13: 9780571371631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304