A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding' s book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.
- ISBN10 0571114547
- ISBN13 9780571114542
- Publish Date 1 October 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English