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Experience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.

An hour on this rock is a lifetime.

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.

''Wizardry of the first order.'' Observer

''Terrifying Magnificently original.' Sylvia Plath

''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' Marlon James

''An

Pincher Martin

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    A Paperback / softback by William Golding, Marlon James

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780571362349
      978-0571362349
      ISBN-10 0571362346
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      Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Experience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.

      An hour on this rock is a lifetime.

      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.

      ''Wizardry of the first order.'' Observer

      ''Terrifying Magnificently original.'       Sylvia Plath

      ''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' Marlon James

      ''An

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