{"product_id":"2026100011993-secondhand-the-spire","title":"The Spire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn medieval England, a cathedral dean named Jocelin is consumed by an obsessive, divine vision: the construction of a four-hundred-foot spire atop his cathedral, a monument to God that defies all reason, engineering, and human cost. William Golding's The Spire, first published in 1964, chronicles this monumental act of faith-turned-folly with gripping psychological intensity, as Jocelin drives his master builder Roger Mason and the cathedral's workers toward an increasingly dangerous and morally compromised goal. The novel masterfully dissects the thin line between holy inspiration and destructive pride, asking whether a great act of creation can be sacred when built upon suffering, deception, and obsession.\n\nGolding, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies, brings his characteristically dense, allegorical prose to bear on themes of ambition, faith, sin, and the terrifying cost of human will. The narrative unfolds entirely through Jocelin's fractured perspective, immersing the reader in a consciousness that grows increasingly unreliable and haunted as the spire rises. Much like the structure it depicts, The Spire is a towering work of literary architecture — one that leaves the reader questioning, long after the final page, whether Jocelin's vision was a gift from God or his greatest damnation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51103149097179,"sku":"2026100011993-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5da72038-8efc-4202-8d02-94deb697ecda.png?v=1794449308","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011993-secondhand-the-spire","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}