Free Fall

william golding

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and obscurity to see his pictures hung in London's Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured and confined to a prison cell in total darkness. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb.

Genres fictionclassicsliteratureliterary fictionnovelsnobel prizebritish literatureenglish literaturecontemporaryhistorical fiction

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1959

This edition

Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1987 by Harcourt Brace
ISBN: 9780156334686
ASIN: 0156334682
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".