Accession number
PML 350227
Creator
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
Published
London : Faber & Faber, 1987.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection, purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Notes
Sequel to: Rites of passage.
Sequel: Fire down below.
Sequel: Fire down below.
Description
281 pages ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by Golding to the publisher.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
Half-way to Australia in a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a becalmed ship. In this surreal atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed spread over the hull.
Binding
Black cloth in dust jacket.
Classification
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