LOSE YOURSELF IN AN EPIC NAVAL JOURNEY IN THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE
BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING HISTORICAL FICTION _SEA TRILOGY _BY THE AUTHOR OF
_LORD OF THE FLIES._
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This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole _imaginable
_world._
A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an
ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fête-like
atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance
and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads
omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium,
both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the
very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at
the seams . . .
'FANTASTIC ... GEMS TUMBLE OFF THE PAGES ... A STRONG SENSE OF DRAMA
... MUCH OF THE PLEASURE OF READING HIS WORK IS HIS ORIGINAL IMAGERY.'
ANNIE PROULX
'No living writer has represented the fragility of man's experience so
marvellously as Golding.' AS Byatt
'It is in Golding's magnificent, therapeutic, terrifying descriptions
of seascapes that the deepest meanings can be found.' Kate Mosse
'Stunning . . . As exciting as any thriller.' _Sunday Times_
'A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.' _Daily
Mail
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'Tells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and
subtlety.' _FINANCIAL TIMES_
_TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: A SEA TRILOGY_ - BOOK TWO
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ISBN
9780571267439
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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