Darkness visible / by William Golding
1979, First Edition. London : Faber. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Very light tanning to margins. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pages; Physical desc.: 265 p ; 21 cm. Subjects: English fiction - 20th century - Modern fiction. Summary: "A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding' s book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time. Item #183000
ISBN: 0571114547
Price: €18.95