Title: Pincher Martin
First published: 1957
Description: One of Golding’s bleakest novels, this existentialist story is about the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the North Atlantic. Having been washed up on a rocky outcrop with no other land in sight and having no form of sustenance the man soon becomes deranged and the ending quickly becomes more and more inevitable.
Subjects: Survival, Fiction, Philosophical Fiction, Survivors, Castaways, Airplane crash survival, Fiction, general, English literature, Literatură engleză, Roman
Places: The North Atlantic
People: William Golding (1911-)
Time periods: 1940's