A British officer blown off his ship in a naval operation in the North Atlantic starts a terrifying battle of a different ilk as the sole survivor in Golding’s bleakly powerful existentialist masterpiece.
Experience a shipwrecked sailor's disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.
An hour on this rock is a lifetime. Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R.
Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571362349
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
Weight: 215 g
Language: English
Edition: Main
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