Pincher Martin
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the violent edge of survival, a drowning sailor clings to a barren Atlantic rock — and to his own desperate will to live. Pincher Martin follows Christopher Martin, a Royal Navy officer whose ship is torpedoed during World War II, as he hauls himself onto a seemingly lifeless outcrop and battles the elements, madness, and the darkest corridors of his own memory. William Golding constructs a savage, psychological drama that strips its protagonist to the bone, forcing a reckoning with greed, guilt, and the terrifying machinery of the human ego. Golding, Nobel Laureate and master of the allegorical novel, wields a prose style that is at once visceral and deeply symbolic, transforming a stark survival narrative into a profound meditation on selfhood, morality, and the nature of consciousness itself. Much like Lord of the Flies, this novel argues that civilization is a veneer stretched thin over primal instinct — but here the battlefield is a single man's fractured psyche. First published in 1956, it stands as one of the twentieth century's most unsettling and intellectually daring works of British fiction, leaving the reader to question not just Martin's fate, but the very reality he — and we — inhabit.
Author: William Golding
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the violent edge of survival, a drowning sailor clings to a barren Atlantic rock — and to his own desperate will to live. Pincher Martin follows Christopher Martin, a Royal Navy officer whose ship is torpedoed during World War II, as he hauls himself onto a seemingly lifeless outcrop and battles the elements, madness, and the darkest corridors of his own memory. William Golding constructs a savage, psychological drama that strips its protagonist to the bone, forcing a reckoning with greed, guilt, and the terrifying machinery of the human ego. Golding, Nobel Laureate and master of the allegorical novel, wields a prose style that is at once visceral and deeply symbolic, transforming a stark survival narrative into a profound meditation on selfhood, morality, and the nature of consciousness itself. Much like Lord of the Flies, this novel argues that civilization is a veneer stretched thin over primal instinct — but here the battlefield is a single man's fractured psyche. First published in 1956, it stands as one of the twentieth century's most unsettling and intellectually daring works of British fiction, leaving the reader to question not just Martin's fate, but the very reality he — and we — inhabit.