Pincher Martin
  • Published:
    Dec-2002
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    216
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Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.


An hour on this rock is a lifetime.


Glistening limpets. The claws of a lobster. 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.
'Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.' Marlon James

'Wizardry of the first order.'
Observer


'Terrifying . Magnificently original.'
Sylvia Plath
'An amazing tour de force ... A blow-by-blow struggle for survival.' Stephen Spender
'Immense ... To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.' Kingsley Amis
'A master fabulist ... An iconoclast.' John Fowles
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Dec-2002
    • Harvest
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 015602781X
    • ISBN13: 9780156027816
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    • Apr-2005
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0571225454
    • ISBN13: 9780571225453
    •  
    • Apr-2015
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0571322743
    • ISBN13: 9780571322749
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • Faber & Faber Fiction
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-2013
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0571309194
    • ISBN13: 9780571309191
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    • Dec-1994
    • ISIS Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1850896526
    • ISBN13: 9781850896524



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