He was struggling in every direction, he was the centre of the writhing and kicking knot of his own body.
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Pincher Martin
by William Golding
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The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of physical and psychological violence lies Christopher Martins will to live as the sum total of his life.
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Survival, Fiction, Philosophical Fiction, Survivors, Castaways, Airplane crash survival, Fiction, general, English literature, Literatură engleză, RomanPeople
William Golding (1911-)Places
The North AtlanticTimes
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Pincher Martin
July 1996, Faber & Faber
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in Spanish
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Pincher Martin: (the two deaths of Christopher Martin)
1984, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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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.
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