Following Rites of Passage, this is second of Golding's Sea Trilogy. 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.
- ISBN10 0571147798
- ISBN13 9780571147793
- Publish Date 1 January 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Faber Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English