Pincher Martin

william golding

The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation.

At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martin’s will to live as the sum total of his life.

Genres fictionclassicsliteraturenovelsfantasy20th centuryliterary fictionbritish literaturenobel prizehistorical fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1956

This edition

Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2002 by Mariner
ISBN: 9780156027816
ASIN: 015602781X
Language: English

About the author

william golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".