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

ISBN:	9780571362349
Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Imprint:	Faber & Faber
Published date:	07 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	214g
Height:	128mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	19mm

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