Pincher Martin

One of Golding’s bleakest novels, this existentialist story is about the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the North Atlantic. Having been washed up on a rocky outcrop with no other land in sight and having no form of sustenance the man soon becomes deranged and the ending quickly becomes more and more inevitable.

First sentence: He was struggling in every direction, he was the centre of the writhing and kicking knot of his own body.

Year

1957

Language

English

Publisher

Harvest Books

Editions

16

Pages

216

ISBN

9780156718332

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