num_pages: 280
description: 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.
language: English
title: Darkness Visible
titlecomplete: Darkness Visible
genres: Classics, British Literature, Drama, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1516
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux