| Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xii, 573 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2009 by Faber and Faber Limited" -- T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-546) and index. |
| Contents |
Beginning -- Grandparents -- Parents -- The house -- Childhood -- Growing up -- Oxford -- Drifting -- The war -- Teaching -- Unpublished novelist -- Breakthrough -- The Inheritors -- Pincher Martin -- The Brass Butterfly -- Free Fall -- Journalism and difficulties with The Spire -- America -- The Spire -- The Hot Gates and The Pyramid -- Disaster -- 'The Jam' and a breakdown -- The Scorpion God and 'History of a Crisis' -- Gap years -- Darkness Visible -- Rites of Passage -- A Moving Target and The Paper Man -- The Nobel Prize and An Egyptian Journal -- A move and Close Quarters -- Fire Down Below and globe-trotting -- The Double Tongue. |
| Subject |
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
|
|
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
|
| ISBN |
9781439187326 hardcover |
|
1439187320 hardcover |
|
