Introduced by Annie Proulx, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning historical novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at
Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before
becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and
schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in
the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies,
his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued
from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a
modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44
languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding
wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won
the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.
www.william-golding.co.uk
Annie Proulx is a celebrated American author and journalist. Her
novels include The Shipping News, which won the Pulitzer Prize and
National Book Award for Fiction as well as being made into a major
film in 2001, as well as Postcards, Accordion Crimes, That Old Ace
in the Hole and Barkskins. Her short story 'Brokeback Mountain' was
adapted into an award-winning motion picture in 2005. She lives in
New Hampshire.
'Golding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and
tremendous intuition.' - Ben Okri
'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies.'
- Melvyn Bragg
'An extraordinary novel.' - Observer
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