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
SurvivalFictionPhilosophical FictionSurvivorsCastawaysAirplane crash survivalFiction, generalEnglish literatureLiteratură englezăRoman