Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin - William Golding • BookLikes (ISBN:0156718332)

Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin

by: William Golding (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780156718332 (0156718332)

Publish date: October 23rd 1968

Publisher: Mariner Books

Pages no: 216

Edition language: English

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Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Modern

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Unbelievably well-done. Excruciating. Quite often unbearably so.

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Golding is a masterful stylist - the prose in Pincher Martin is so visceral it hurts - and this novel rank among his best works, right up there with The Inheritors and Rites of Passage. Explorations of guilt, of insufficiency, of the pettiness of humankind, all written up in a language that barely l...

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