Pincher Martin Av William Golding

<p><b>Experience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, introduced by Marlon James.</b><br><i><b><br>An hour on this rock is a lifetime.</b></i><br><br>Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. 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.<br><br><b>''Wizardry of the first order.'' </b>Observer<br><b><br>''Terrifying ¿ Magnificently original.¿</b> Sylvia Plath<br><br><b>''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' </b>Marlon James<br><br><b>''A