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._ _ 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 _ '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
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Faber & Faber
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Engelsk
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Digital bok

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