Pincher Martin
Pincher MartinWilliam Golding

Pincher Martin (1874)

William Golding

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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.

ISBN:
9780571298501
Length:
208 pages

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