Close quarters
By: William Golding.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Ocean travel -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Australia -- Fiction.
Description: Half-way to Australia in a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a becalmed ship. In this surreal atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed spread over the hull.
Notes: Sequel to: Rites of passage.
Sequel: Fire down below.
LC copy in dust jacket.
Source: Purchase, Aug. 14, 1987 (DLC #0172875).