Pincher Martin
introduced by marlon james
$30.71
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2022
Summary
Marooned: A Descent into Madness on a Lonely Rock
Christopher Martin, the lone survivor of a devastating shipwreck, finds himself marooned on a desolate rock in the vast Atlantic.
His existence becomes a brutal struggle against the elements: the relentless sun, the biting cold, and the crushing weight of solitude. His only sustenance comes from meager rainwater, seaweed, and anemones, all under the watchful eyes of strange, feathered reptiles.
As he teeters on the br…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571362349 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571362346 |
| Author: | William Golding, Marlon James |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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The utmost inventiveness … No reader will forget the world it reveals. - Kingsley Amis
The utmost inventiveness … No reader will forget the world it reveals. - Kingsley Amis
About The Author
William Golding
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Oxford. In his youth he was a keen actor, lecturer, small-boat sailor, and musician. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy, where he saw action against battleships and pursued the Bismarck; after the war, he became a schoolteacher until 1961. Golding’s debut novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954 after being rescued from Faber & Faber’s slush pile of manuscripts, and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, as well as being knighted in 1988. Recently, the Times ranked Golding third on their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of numerous award-winning novels, and A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel is the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award, among other accolades.
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