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Title: Darkness Visible

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

This chilling mystery by the Nobel Prize-winning author focuses on the half-hidden evil so convincingly evoked in Lord of the Flies.
At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. MiracuLousLy saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are LoveLess. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book Lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

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A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes . . . [Golding] emerges like Merlin the wizard to cast a new spell . . . "Darkness Visible" is magic. -"The New York Times Book Review"
A brilliantly spooky novel . . . Written with great insight and a surprising humor, it is a thorough pleasure to read. -"The Atlantic Monthly"
"Darkness Visible, " it must be said at once, restores a living force among us . . . An intensity of vision without parallel. -Frank Tuohy, "The Times Literary Supplement"

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