Books with title Pincher Martin

From Nobel Prize winner William Golding, this is the story of the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in the 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 Martin's will to live as the sum total of his life. 208 pages.

London edition. "Mr. Golding's imagination works brilliantly just within the limits of fantastic nightmare...Martin's strugles in the water, with which the sotry opens, his slow clim up the rock to a sort of plateau on the top, the confused meditations in which his rational mind strives to reduce the hooro of his position to tolerable terms: of all this Mr. Golding writes with a remarkably sustained imaginative intensity." The London Times Supplement.