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      Pincher Martin

      by William Golding
      Published
      Dec 2002
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      216
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      Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.


      An hour on this rock is a lifetime.


      Glistening limpets. The claws of a lobster. 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.

      'Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.' Marlon James


      'Wizardry of the first order.'       Observer


      'Terrifying . Magnificently original.'       Sylvia Plath

      'An amazing tour de force ... A blow-by-blow struggle for survival.' Stephen Spender

      'Immense ... To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.' Kingsley Amis

      'A master fabulist ... An iconoclast.' John Fowles

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      First Edition Dec 2002 Harvest ISBN 015602781X
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