Author: William Golding Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Award winners
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ISBNs: 9780374525606 9780374530518 0374525609 0374530513 |
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A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.
At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.
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