Pincher Martin

About this book

One of Golding’s bleakest novels, this existentialist story is about the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the North Atlantic. Having been washed up on a rocky outcrop with no other land in sight and having no form of sustenance the man soon becomes deranged and the ending quickly becomes more and more inevitable.

Subjects

  • airplane crash survival
  • castaways
  • english literature
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • literatură engleză
  • philosophical fiction
  • roman
  • survival
  • survivors