{"product_id":"pincher-martin-9780143138792","title":"Pincher Martin","description":"\u003cb\u003eExperience a shipwrecked sailor's disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced by Marlon James \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlistening 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Golding \u003c\/b\u003e(1911- 1993) was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911 and educated at Oxford University. His first book, \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1934. Following a stint in the Royal Navy and other diversions during and after World War II, Golding wrote his first novel, \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies \u003c\/i\u003e(1954), while teaching school. Many novels followed, including \u003ci\u003eThe Inheritors \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), \u003ci\u003ePincher Martin \u003c\/i\u003e(1956), and \u003ci\u003eFree Fall \u003c\/i\u003e(1959), as well as a play, \u003ci\u003eThe Brass Butterfly \u003c\/i\u003e(1958), and a collection of shorter works, \u003ci\u003eThe Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces \u003c\/i\u003e(1965). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible \u003c\/i\u003e(1979) and the Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eRites of Passage \u003c\/i\u003e(1980). In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature \"for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.\" He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988. William Golding died in June 1993 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, in England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarlon James\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Crow's Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Night Women\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2015 Man Booker Prize-winning\u003ci\u003e A Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e, National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e, and NYT-bestseller \u003ci\u003eMoon Witch, Spider King\u003c\/i\u003e, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057768984850,"sku":"9780143138792","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a49577f-fb87-41df-bc68-e40cf9a7359a.jpg?v=1772006168","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pincher-martin-9780143138792","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}