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The Scorpion God - William Golding
The Scorpion God
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780571098668 (0571098665)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 178
Edition language: English
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jonafras
jonafras rated it
4.0 The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels
I actually really liked these. The first (Egyptian) novella is quite amazing, and Golding's mastery in evoking "alienness" shines through best here (as well as in The Inheritors, which is for various reasons my favorite book of his). The second story is an interesting working out of a famous (and ra...
spocksbro
spocksbro rated it
The Scorpion God is a collection of three novellas. The title story takes place in Egypt, I would guess shortly before or around the time of the First Dynasty (c. 3000 BC); "Clonk Clonk" takes place at some period before the Agricultural Revolution (pre-10,000 BC), maybe in Africa, maybe not; and th...
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