Pincher Martin

Experience a shipwrecked sailor\'s disintegration into \'a naked madman on a rock\' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.An hour on this rock is a lifetime.Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R. Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece.\'Wizardry of the first order.\' Observer\'Terrifying . Magnificently original.\' Sylvia Plath\'Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.\' Marlon James\'An amazing tour de force ... A blow-by-blow struggle for survival.\' Stephen Spender\'Immense ... To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.\' Kingsley Amis\'A master fabulist ... An iconoclast.\' John Fowles Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm