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Overview
A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780374530518
- ISBN-10: 0374530513
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: May 2007
- Dimensions: 8.39 x 5.63 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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