William Golding: Close Quarters

The second volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.
ISBN: 9780571298563
Author: William Golding
Page: 301
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2013
Format: Book
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Language: English

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Price: 2 825 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fete-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull. Thesequel to Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, the second volume in Golding's acclaimed sea trilogy, is imbued with his extraordinary sense of menace. Half-mad with fear, with drink, with love and opium, everyone on this leaky, unsound hulk is 'going to pieces'. And in a nightmarish climax the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship begins to come apart at the seams.

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